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Parx Tables Earn $10M in October; $200K in Local Taxes
Finished second to Sands Casino in Bethlehem.
in Bensalem finished October with over $10 million in gross revenue from its table games. That total, however, wasn’t enough to claim the top spot in Pennsylvania’s 10 casinos.
Sands Casino in Bethlehem topped Parx with $10.76 million in October. Parx usually leads the state in table revenue.
According to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, all 10 casinos generated $53 million last month. Last October, state casinos had $40.9 million in table revenue and Parx tables made $5.8 million.
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Pennsylvania taxes gross table game revenue at 16 percent (14 percent to the Commonwealth’s General Fund and 2 percent to local share fund) which resulted in $8,567,041 of tax revenue.
Parx Casino’s 183 table games generated nearly $1.5 million in state taxes in October and over $200,000 for Bensalem and Bucks County.
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Gross revenue for each of the casinos in October 2011 compared to October 2010 is as follows:
Casino
Oct. 2011 Tables
Oct. 2011 Gross Revenue
Oct.
2010 Tables
Oct. 2010 Gross Revenue
Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem
129
$10,761,227
89
$5,542,036
Parx Casino
183
$10,061,879
57
$5,793,303
Harrah's Chester Casino and Racetrack
121
$6,902,708
99
$5,800,755
SugarHouse Casino
53
$6,664,742
40
$5,307,615
Rivers Casino
108
$5,532,071
86
$4,173,639
Mount Airy Casino Resort
72
$3,538,494
75
$4,046,231
Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs
84
$3,379,217
84
$3,450,400
Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course
65
$2,998,307
54
$2,654,177
The Meadows Racetrack and Casino
78
$1,720,587
61
$2,569,882
Presque Isle Downs and Casino
52
$1,520,710
48
$1,555,387
Statewide Total
946
$53,079,942
693
$40,893,425
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