Maryland casino revenues exceed 165m in September 2021

Maryland’s six casinos brought in a combined revenue of over $165m in September, a 15

Maryland’s vi casinos brought in a combined revenue of over $165m inwards September, a 15.1% increment from the same month inward 2020.

The Old Line State State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency has released its written report for Sep 2021, revealing that summate gambling casino gaming revenues for the 2022 financial twelvemonth are upwardly past 18.7% to nearly $514m from $433m.

Video drawing terminals (VLTs) brought inward the bulk of the figure, netting a porcine revenue of more than $109m for the month, patch revenues from tabular array games only if amounted to a scrap o'er $56m.

In addition, casino gaming contributions stood at simply shy of $69m, a to a greater extent than $9m bump from Sept 2020’s $59.6m sum, with the lion’s apportion sledding to the state’s Education Trust Fund (ETF) at a little over $50m.

Other recipients included Maryland’s horseracing industry, local financial aid and small, minority, women-owned businesses.

The written report also offered a equipment failure of apiece of the state’s sixer licenced casinos, with the MGM-owned National Harbor claiming the top of the inning dapple during a month that saw its revenues transcend $69m.

In a not-too-distant arcsecond come in was the Live! Casino & Hotel at $56.4m, with the Horseshoe Casino tracking slow at $17.5m for third.

The remaining three casinos — Ocean Downs, Hollywood and Rocky Gap — took in $9m, $7.4m and $5.3m respectively.

All-in-all, this month pushes the cumulative revenue of Maryland’s Gaming Program to o'er $12.3bn, inwards the geological period from 2010 through and through to September 2021.

This comes amid a resurgence for traditional, brick-and-mortar casinos as they escort byplay bounciness back from the pandemic epoch lows of special mental ability and frequent closures.

Maryland’s operators had their own struggles, seeing major losses during the lockdowns of last-place year, with revenues for June 2020 of $34.9m, pull down from $142.9m for the same month in 2019.