- Pennsylvania collected $7,005,987,435 in gaming revenue in fiscal 2025/26, a 9.56% increase and its first year above $7 billion.
- Internet casino gaming grew 18.42% to $2.93 billion and now returns more tax to the state than retail slot machines.
- Sports wagering revenue jumped 35.95% to $662.9 million even though the amount wagered fell 3.14%.
- Retail slots and table games combined slipped 0.58%, leaving online verticals as the sole source of growth.
All of the state’s record fiscal-year growth came from iGaming and sports betting, while retail casino floors slipped 0.58%.
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania’s regulated gambling market produced $7,005,987,435 in gross revenue in fiscal year 2025/26, the first time the state has cleared $7 billion and a 9.56% increase over the prior year, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reported.
The Growth Came Entirely From the Internet
The Gaming Control Board’s fiscal year report, released July 17, shows total revenue rose $611.3 million over the prior year. Internet casino gaming added $456.4 million of that and sports wagering added $175.3 million, a combined $631.7 million.
That is more than the entire year’s growth. The gap is the retail floor. Slot machines at the state’s 18 land-based casinos finished at $2,440,995,939, up $521,172 or 0.02%, effectively flat. Table games fell 2.15% to $908,941,135. Together the two floor games lost $19.5 million, a decline of 0.58%.
Internet casino gaming closed at $2,933,453,989, or 41.87% of all regulated gaming revenue in the state. It also passed a tax threshold: iGaming returned $1,337,414,660 to the commonwealth against $1,233,866,398 from retail slot machines. Online casino play is now Pennsylvania’s single largest gaming tax source.
Operator results inside that vertical diverged sharply. The largest single total, $1,133,363,805, belonged to Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, a 21.11% gain. Valley Forge Casino Resort took $811,783,617, up 20.23%, and Presque Isle Downs and Casino grew 123.97%.
The losses were just as steep. Live! Casino Philadelphia fell 52.77% and Mount Airy Casino Resort fell 47.53%. Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states with online casinos, and its growth is concentrating in a few skins even as the vertical expands.
Bettors Wagered Less and Lost More
The sports wagering line moved in two directions at once. Revenue rose 35.95% to $662,947,631, but handle, the total amount actually wagered, fell to $8,448,101,928 from $8,721,795,533, a drop of $273.7 million or 3.14%.
Revenue climbing while handle fell means the books held a larger share of what was bet. Pennsylvania sportsbooks kept 7.85% of every dollar wagered, up from 5.59% a year earlier.
The hold rate is what a sportsbook wins, not a bettor’s odds of winning, and it moved 2.26 points in a single year. Bettors put less money in play and still lost $175 million more than they had the year before.
Individual sportsbook results moved hard. Valley Forge Casino Resort led at $272,595,463, up 8.91%. Hollywood Casino at the Meadows rose 44.76% to $189,907,153, and Hollywood Casino York grew 287.55% to $41,676,455. All of it sits inside a statewide handle decline in Pennsylvania.
Taxes Hit a Record, With a Caveat
Taxes and fees returned to the commonwealth reached $3,098,193,583, also a fiscal-year record. The board notes that figure includes $110 million in slot machine license operation fees, a levy on operators rather than a share of player losses, so the underlying gameplay tax base is smaller than the headline total suggests.
Sports wagering contributed $238,661,147 in tax. Video gaming terminals at qualified truck stops generated $41,622,548 in revenue across 75 facilities, up from 73 a year ago, and paid $21,643,725. Fantasy sports contests fell 5.79% to $18,026,193, with DraftKings down 6.57% and FanDuel down 6.11%.
Happy Valley Casino, which opened in April 2026, recorded $5,866,406 in slot revenue in its first partial year.
June Closed the Year Down
The record fiscal year ended on a down month. A separate monthly report released the same day put June revenue at $535,268,188, 1.73% below June 2025. Retail table games fell 21.04% to $61,021,223 and sports wagering fell 39.57% to $30,962,098 against a thin summer sports calendar, while iGaming slots rose 17.63% to $190,838,244.
That divergence is the one that defined the full year. The board publishes those figures operator by operator for the licensed US gambling sites it regulates, and it reports monthly, so the first football-season data that would test whether the 7.85% hold rate survives will not arrive until the fall.