The state's first casino, which houses 1,500 slot machines, averaged $245 daily per machine last month. That's lower than the nearly $346 daily per machine the Cecil County casino made during the first four days of operation in September, but that strong showing was expected with a new casino opening that typically draws large crowds.
Slots revenue at the Perryville facility was expected to moderate over time as the business settled down.
Since its Sept. 27 opening, the casino has generated a total of $13.5 million. Of that, nearly 50 percent – or $6.5 million -- have gone to the state's education trust fund.
The casino receives 33 percent of the revenue. The rest is split among the horse racing purse account, a fund to improve the state's race tracks, the Maryland Lottery, Perryville, Cecil County and small, minority and women-owned businesses.
Maryland slots supporters won a 2008 referendum to approve slots at five locations in the state, which had banned slot-machine gambling in the 1960s. But besides Perryville, a casino at Ocean Downs racetrack on the Eastern Shore is the only other facility close to opening. It is scheduled to open next month.
Last week, Anne Arundel voters approved a ballot measure to allow a 4,750-machine slots parlor proposed by the Cordish Cos. at Arundel Mills Mall.
The Baltimore developer plans to expedite development of the casino, which could include a temporary site that would likely hold about 2,000 slot machines and could begin operating in as few as five months. The casino is expected to open sometime in 2012.
Plans for a parlor in Baltimore are entangled in legal challenges. And the state has been unable to identify an acceptable bidder to operate a slots parlor at Rocky Gap in Western Maryland.
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