Their combined revenue from their rake on poker games amounted to $53.9 million in 2019, down 9.1% from the peak of $59.1 million for live Pennsylvania poker in 2017. Poker players itching to return to live tables received bad news last week when the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board released guidelines that will keep poker rooms closed indefinitely whenever casinos reopen.īut how much of a setback will the continued quiet in the card rooms be for the casinos themselves? Probably not much, as the Texas hold’em cash games and tourneys are not big earners - especially considering the labor involved compared to the machines that dominate the gaming floor.įor the 10 Pennsylvania casinos with card rooms, live poker provides just 1.7% of their overall revenue and it has been on the decline.
