Maryland’s new slots parlor generated $11.4 million during October, bringing in roughly $50,00 more a day than state officials anticipated.
Each of the 1,500 slot machines installed in Perryville’s month-old Hollywood Casino generated roughly $245 per day. The Department of Legislative Services estimated each machine would rake in about $210 a day.
But the state’s slots revenue is still far behind schedule, since the Perryville casino is only the first of five slots locations that has opened since voters approved the gambling machines in 2007.
The Maryland Education Trust fund will receive roughly $6.5 million of the parlor ’s October revenues, and $4.4 million will be returned to the casino. The rest will go to the state lottery, horse racing, and minority and women-owned businesses.
