HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today unanimously approved a number of table games regulations, including those that define training requirements for dealers and the game specifications for a number of poker games.

The regulations for dealers require that they be trained in each type of table game in which they would deal, receiving the training either at an accredited school or a licensed casino facility, or have at least 6 months of table game dealing experience in another jurisdiction.

HARRISBURG, PA:  The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today approved a consent agreement that levies a $48,900 fine on Washington Trotting Association, Inc, d/b/a The Meadows Racetrack and Casino, for a variety of regulatory shortcomings, including violating internal controls relating to the payout of false jackpots.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today announced that it would hold a public hearing on Thursday, February 25, 2010 to gather evidence, including public comment, on the petition submitted by Mount Airy #1, LLC, operator of the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Monroe County, requesting authorization to conduct table games.

The hearing will begin at 10:00 am at the Paradise Township Municipal Building, located at the intersection of Routes 191 and 940 in Cresco, Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG: The Thursday February 11, 2010 meeting of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has been postponed due to the expected hazardous conditions in the Harrisburg area from the impending snowstorm.

The meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday February 17, 2010 at 1:00 pm in Room 8E-B in the East Wing of the State Capitol Building.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today announced that it would hold a public hearing on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 to gather evidence, including public comment, on the petition submitted by Downs Racing, L.P., operator of the slot machine casino at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, requesting authorization to conduct table games.

Downs Racing is the first casino operator to file a petition since this year’s passage of Senate Bill 711 on January 7th which permitted the addition of table games at Pennsylvania casinos.

HARRISBURG:  Pennsylvania casinos ushered in the new year by producing over $50 million more in gross revenue from slot machine play in January 2010 over the previous January, an increase of 39.24%

According to figures released today by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, the nine slot machine facilities operating in Pennsylvania during January of this year collectively generated $184,214,974 in gross revenue compared to $132,303,649 in January of 2009 when seven casinos were in operation.

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today placed four individuals on its involuntary Casino Exclusion List, an action that prohibits these individuals from entering or patronizing any casino in the Commonwealth.

Under the Gaming Act, the Board can place individuals on the Exclusion List if they are career or professional offenders or whose presence in a licensed facility would, in the opinion of the board, be inimical to the interest of the Commonwealth, of licensed gaming, or both.   The list is posted on the PGCB web site.

HARRISBURG, PA: A $16,000 fine was levied today by the Commonwealth’s gaming oversight agency on a western Pennsylvania casino operator for violations dealing with underage gambling.

The fine was part of a consent agreement between the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and Holdings Acquisition Co. L.P., operator of the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh. The civil penalties, unanimously approved by the Board at its public meeting in Harrisburg, were for incidents that occurred at Rivers Casino in October and December of 2009.

HARRISBURG:  A $16,000 fine was levied today by the Commonwealth’s gaming oversight agency on a western Pennsylvania casino operator for violations dealing with underage gambling.

The fine was part of a consent agreement between the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and Holdings Acquisition Co. L.P., operator of the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh. The civil penalties, unanimously approved by the Board at its public meeting in Harrisburg, were for incidents that occurred at Rivers Casino in October and December of 2009. 

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today approved a number of table games regulations, including those that define the rules of some of the more popular games that will be offered later this year at Commonwealth casinos.

The adoption comes less than three weeks after passage of Act 1 of 2010 that authorized table games at existing Pennsylvania casinos.