"The bill calls for upfront license fees of
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Dude! He's like a gremlin. Comes with instructions and shit!
PA has passed table games. Oh man. Stay tuned for some insights. This is going to throw a wrench into some things :)
"The bill calls for upfront license fees of$16.5 million for stand-alone casinos and casinos at horse tracks and $7.5 million for resort licenses.It also changes some of the regulatory language in the state's gaming law by barring anyone convicted of a felony from holding a casino license or acting as a "key employee" at a casino."
"The bill calls for upfront license fees of
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Hey, you think any card rooms will open up close to NYC? Poconos maybe, or better yet, water gap?
Mohegan Sun has a racetrack and casino in Wilkes-Barre. Mount Airy is also in the Poconos.
Both will almost assuredly have table games. As per the language of the law, the stand alone and race track casinos will be allowed three times the amount of tables than those classified as "resorts".
Assuming Mt. Airy is classified as a resort, they will be limited to only 50 tables of gaming space. How they determine the split of those tables will be up to the Casino itself. I would assume the "resort" rated casinos will most likely have no more than 5-10 tables of poker. But you can almost be assured that mohegan will offer a bunch more than that.
Wow, thanks for the great reply.
Seems to be about the same amount of time to get to any of them (AC, Wilkes-Barre or Mt. Airy) so not sure if that will change my mind about going to AC except in the winter when I can snowboard then donk away my $$.
I wish they'd legalize cards in nyc dammit....
The close part of the poconos is definitely closer to NYC than Atlantic City or the Connecticut indian casinos. We go to Great Wolf Lodge sometimes with the family and it can't be more than an hour and a half door to door -- that place is only a few miles past the Delaware Water Gap.
Hmmmmmm, another reason to head back to my home state . . .
You gettin homesick ck?
... and hoy, that's what I was thinking... I used to hang glide at the gap, always seemed like a pretty quick drive over there. Hope someone slaps a card room down right on the border :)
I don't really get homesick. Lancaster County isn't exactly the hoppin-est of places. However, I do make trips back to PA from time to time to visit my family and it would be fun to make a poker pit stop between the Philadelphia airport and Amish-ville.
You snowboard, BLAARGH? (I do too.)
To calrify, Mount Airy does not have a "resort' license. That is a casino license desgnation only. Currently there are only two 'resort' licenses in existence in PA. One is used (Valley Forge Convention Center) and the other is not used yet.
The resort license further limits not only the number of slots but also table games (as Riggstad alluded to). It also limits who can play at the resort. You have to be a patron of the facility before you can partake of the casino. For example, you'd have to be attending a convention at valley forge if you wanted to use the casino. Theoretically you could not roll in off the street to hit the casino.
The bootom line is that Mount Airy has the same casino license as Pocono Downs; Easton Steel mill; Philly parx etc. And have the same table game limit as those facilities.
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