Catskills Casino Will Affect Wilkes-Barre’s Slot Machines

With the state of New York’s Governor giving the go ahead on the casino planned for the Catskills, people in Pennsylvania are starting to get a little nervous. They know that the amount of money that will be coming into the new casino will definitely take away from the slot machine revenue that the Wilkes-Barre casino has been getting.

The Catskills will probably be completely revitalized by the new casino – it is going to have slot machines, blackjack, poker, you name it. The Pennsylvania casino is not allowed table games so they only have slot machines to offer. With NY’s governor finally giving the go-ahead on a $600 million casino at Monticello, PA is worried that it will have a significant impact on their Northeastern casinos.

Many think that with the state of NY putting table games so close to PA’s borders that it will just be a matter of time now before PA legalizes table games as well. They say the draw from their casinos to the Catskills will be just too great for them to survive unless they are on an equal playing field.

It seems that if Pennsylvania wants to stay competitive, they are going to have to legalize them, which makes many uneasy. They say they legalized slot machines, and then you pushed for table games and you got those, what’s next? However, experts say that if you want to compete you have to have the same amenities as the other resorts, and right now they don’t. They say even as they try to decide, West Virginia is in the process of legalizing table games as well, so there will go more of their slot machine revenue.

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