Posts Tagged ‘table games’

Pennsylvania casino operators predict fast start to table games

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Players might not be rolling dice or going all in on the poker table by Independence Day, but it could be close.

Rendell signs gambling bill, wants Pennsylvania table games on the fast track

Friday, January 8th, 2010

With Gov. Ed Rendell pledging to get table games “up and running in as many casino venues as possible by July,” Nemacolin Woodlands in Fayette County yesterday entered a four-way competition for the state’s last resort casino license.

Table games are coming to Pennsylvania’s slots casinos in summer

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

HARRISBURG – The state House on Wednesday sent Gov. Ed Rendell a bill allowing poker, blackjack and roulette atPennsylvania’s slot-machine casinos, putting into place the last, unfinished piece of this year’s $27.8 billion state budget.

At last, a table games deal

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

HARRISBURG – After months of delays, a bill allowing poker, blackjack, roulette and other table games at Pennsylvania’s slot-machine casinos appears poised for a final vote as early as today.

Rendell: Table games bill possible by end of the week

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Gov. Ed Rendell said today he is “guardedly optimistic” that before the end of the week the Legislature will approve a revised bill allowing table games at casinos, which would void his threat to lay off 1,000 or so state employees on Friday to balance the 2009-10 budget. The state House and Senate are expected to form a six-member conference committee today to adopt a new version of Senate Bill 711, the table games bill. The Senate then is expected to vote on it tonight and the House tomorrow. Mr. Rendell said he hopes the bill will be on his desk by Thursday, but said only time will tell.

Pa. table-games deal faces Friday deadline

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Lawmakers return to work today with a seemingly simple goal: delivering a table-games bill to the governor’s desk by Friday.

PoliticsPA’s Weekly Primer: 1/4 Edition

Monday, January 4th, 2010

It’s the first week of the new year, and as lawmakers return to Harrisburg, table games legislation and proposed tolls for I-80 are on everyone’s mind. Plus, will Dave Argall challenge “Blue Dog” Tim Holden?

PoliticsPA’s Up and Down: 12/25 Edition

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Call us Grinches, but it’s all down arrows this week – Testimony reveals some of the weird things Bill DeWeese had his staff doing for him, Joe Sestak digs at Specter during the holidays, and David Argall won’t make up his mind!

Table-games bill would fund pet causes

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Libraries in Pittsburgh. A lower Bucks County hospital. A new medical school in Scranton. A community college in Erie – if it ever gets built.
Those pet projects and others stand to hit the jackpot if table games are legalized at Pennsylvania casinos.

Elmer Smith: Pa.’s dream of big gambling

Friday, December 18th, 2009

PENNSYLVANIA has just served notice on all the surrounding states in the casino game: We just opened a fresh can of whoop-ass with your name on it. New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Connecticut and all the ships at sea – you’d better bet big or stay home.