From the Maryland Lottery:
The Maryland Lottery today announced April 2011 revenue numbers for the state’s two casinos — Hollywood Casino Perryville in Cecil County and the Casino at Ocean Downs in Worcester County. April’s statewide revenue totaled $13,560,746.63, bringing the cumulative fiscal year total for both facilities to $77,149,863.02.
Hollywood Casino Perryville generated $10,052,057.15 in April, bringing fiscal year-to-date revenue to $64,221,890.67 for the facility. April’s gross gaming revenue per machine per day was $223.38, and the casino is averaging $196.40 in daily per machine gaming revenue since opening on September 27, 2010. Casino at Ocean Downs generated $3,508,689.48 in April, bringing fiscal year-to-date revenue to $12,927,972.35. The gross gaming revenue per machine per day is $155.94, and the daily per machine gaming revenue average since Casino at Ocean Downs opened on January 4, 2011 is $147.33.
A detailed breakdown of April’s fund disbursement and fiscal year-to-date totals for the individual casinos and the combined state total are as follows:
To keep Marylanders informed and maintain integrity and transparency in its regulation of the state’s casinos, the Maryland Lottery posts monthly financial reports on slots revenue on its website, slots.mdlottery.com
Since its inception in 1973, the Maryland Lottery has awarded more than $17.7 billion in prizes to players and $11.7 billion in revenue to the State of Maryland. One of Maryland’s largest revenue sources, the Lottery supports important state programs and services including education, public safety and health, human resources and the environment. For more information, go to mdlottery.com.
Paul Yanney says
wonder what the State is doing with all this money they’re making on casinos? The lottery income too, what do they do with that?? Buy more lottery tickets? No doubt it’s being used in some benevolent way by our elected officials-right??