First Pennsylvania Bar Gets Gambling OKTaverns Can Offer Pull-Tabs, Daily Drawings, Charity Raffles |
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Small-scale gambling at bars in Pennsylvania is one step closer to reality after state liquor regulators gave the OK Wednesday for the first gambling license of its kind.
According to reporting from WFMZ, the Midway Tavern in Hanover, Adams County has been given state approval to run pull-tab games, daily drawings and charity raffles.
It is expected that 2,000 bars will apply for licenses to offer gambling. Less than a dozen have done so thus far. A license costs a couple grand.
Taxes on the games are expected to net the state around $100 million, eventually. Pennsylvania, like pretty much everywhere, is experiencing budget issues in the post-Great Recession era.
The bar gambling law was signed by the governor just this past November.
The state has the second-largest commercial casino industry in the country. In 2013, Pennsylvania casinos brought in $3.1 billion from gamblers. The state has around a dozen casinos at the moment, with more on the way. Right now, developers are competing for the right to build a brand new Las Vegas-style casino in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania is also taking a look at allowing online gambling.
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