Mohegan Sun Pocono vice president of marketing David Parfrey expects there will be a significant amount of action when it comes to betting on the big game Sunday.
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Trisha Hicks, of Oakland, places bets on sporting games at the sportsbook inside Rivers Casino on Jan. 7, 2021.
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Pennsylvanians might not be able to legally bet on what color the Gatorade will be dumped on the winning team’s coach or the length of the National Anthem, but many people likely will make other proposition bets offered during Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Prop bets, or side wagers, allow people to wager on things such as the outcome of the coin toss or which team will score the first points of the game. The wagers, permitted since Pennsylvania legalized sports betting in 2018, offer different avenues of betting during a game instead of simply who will win or how many points will be scored.
New 510,000-square-foot casino with hotel and a dozen restaurants plans to open in Pa. next month
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
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A new casino in Philadelphia plans to open next month.
The 510,000-square-foot Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia plans to open at 8 p.m., Feb. 11, pending approval from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. The casino is located at 900 Packer Ave. and is owned by the Cordish Companies.
When it comes to gaming, the casino will have 2,100 slots and electronic table games; 150 table games; a 29 table poker room and a FanDuel sportsbook.
When it comes to dining and entertainment the casino will have a number of options.
‘A trying time’: Pandemic dealt Pennsylvania’s casinos a bad hand in 2020
This was the year when the house didn’t win.
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered a streak of bad luck to Pennsylvania casinos last year unlike any other they have seen since the state first legalized gambling in 2004.
Plagued by two pandemic-related shutdowns, the state’s 13 casinos lost $759 million in revenue last year compared with their haul in 2019. That represented a 22.2% drop.
And like a string of bad hands, the fallout had a rippling effect that to varying degrees affected workers, state and local tax revenues, vendors, and others in the casino supply chain.
Pennsylvania’s casinos were closed a third of the year in 2020 and revenue was down more than 20 percent
Updated Jan 24, 2021;
Posted Jan 24, 2021
Bethlehem s Wind Creek Casino reopened on June 29, 2020, under new COVID-19 restrictions. To help with social distancing, chairs have been removed from many gambling machines. So there are always two unused machines between people. (Saed Hindash, LehighValleyLive)Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com
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Pennsylvania’s casinos saw a large decrease in revenue last year.
Casino closures contributed to the decrease last year. Casino closure days totaled 1,473 days last year, or 33 percent of the number of days the 13 casinos would have been operating in a normal year, and video gaming terminals were shut down for a similar percentage of days due to Covid-19 safety measures, according to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.