Gaming revenue at Maryland’s six casinos set a record high in July for the third time in five months.
According to numbers released by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, the state’s casinos generated a total of $180.1 million in gaming revenue for July, up 28.7 percent from July 2020 (although in that month, the state’s casinos were restricted to 50 percent capacity due to the Covid-19 pandemic).
Maryland’s cut of July casino revenues is $77.3 million, the majority of that going to the state’s Education Trust Fund.
MGM National Harbor, the state’s largest casino, generated $72.3 million in gaming revenue last month, up 38.2 percent from a year earlier. Live! Casino & Hotel had $62.9 million in July gaming revenue, up 22.1 percent. Baltimore’s Horseshoe Casino snapped several months of reporting year-over-year declines in gaming revenue, with its $19.3 million up 22.5 percent from July 2020.
The state’s three smaller casinos, Ocean Downs, Hollywood Casino and Rocky Gap Casino, all had double-digit increases in year-over-year gaming revenue last month.
Maryland’s casinos also set revenue records in March and May this year.
