Philadelphia Park’s Slot Machines are Up and Running

Officially, Inez Perez is the first slot machine winner at the Philadelphia Park Casino – a slot machine parlor. On Tuesday, the Philadelphia Park Casino opened with 2,200 slot machines, and Perez was the first winner. It may have only been $5 – but a win is a win.

With PA opening another slot machine casino, and others still to follow, it could get a little hairy for Atlantic City’s bottom line. The slot machine casinos in NJ are keeping an eye on the competition, and waiting to see how they will fare when all is said and done. “When you combine that with the prospect of a smoking ban in Atlantic City [slot machine and gambling] casinos, I’d say that 2007 will be a challenging year for the casinos there,” said Joseph Weinert, the vice president of the Spectrum Gaming Group, a casino consultant outside Atlantic City.

Philadelphia Park may have opened on a Tuesday, but there were plenty of cars in the parking lot waiting for their chance to play the slot machines inside. They are now officially the second slot machine casino/racetrack to open in PA. The slot machine casino is a makeover of a 32 year old racetrack – but the makeover cost more than $560 million to do. Each of the casinos in PA will only offer slot machines, but they are still going to take business from Atlantic City. If PA chooses to add table games to the slot machines, Atlantic City could be in real trouble.

 

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