PA Gaming Review: Harrah’s Poker Room Folds, Illegal Slots Seized, Tiz Brings Tidings
This week in PA gaming, bad news for Harrah's poker players and an illegal slot parlor that was raided, but Tiz the Law brings hope for PA horse owners.
Kevin C. Shelly is an award-winning career journalist who has spent most of his career in South Jersey. He's the former assistant city editor of The Press of Atlantic City, where he covered the casino industry and Atlantic City government as a reporter. He was also an investigative, narrative enterprise, and features reporter for Gannett’s Courier-Post.
This week in PA gaming, bad news for Harrah's poker players and an illegal slot parlor that was raided, but Tiz the Law brings hope for PA horse owners.
An error in one track's numbers resulted in reporting of a slight year-over-year loss in PA horse racing live handle, but it was actually up.
PA gaming options continue to expand with announcment of a new mini-casino auction, more VGT licenses and partypoker seeking regulatory approval for poker.
Tiz the Law is making a run at horse racing's Triple Crown, but what most people don't know is how deep are his connections in Pennsylvania.
Jockey Anthony Salgado, a rider at Parx Casino's horse racing track with lifetime total purse winnings of more than $14.1 million, has tested positive for coronavirus, multiple sources say.
Scientific Games is now the exclusive distributor of SidePlay eInstant games, which will debut first via the PA iLottery online and mobile platforms.