In general, poker rooms are not considered big revenue generators for casinos that make the bulk of their income from slot machines. While most of the state’s casinos eventually reopened poker rooms that - like the casinos themselves - were closed temporarily starting in March 2020 due to COVID, those at Hollywood Penn National as well as Harrah’s Philadelphia and Presque Isle Downs & Casino did not return. The Bad Beat Jackpot Giveaway, the Facebook post said, will be open to those who “had rated poker play between Augand March 20, 2020.” Hollywood one of three rooms that didn’t reopen
While that might be bad news for those accustomed to patronizing the 17-table poker room in the past, the consolation is the casino announced it will hold drawings at the end of July to give away over $440,000 that’s been built up in its poker “bad beat” jackpot. “We wanted to provide everyone with an update that the poker room will not reopen,” the casino reported on July 1. In a Facebook post this month, Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course revealed an update concerning its poker room, which never reopened after a March 2020 COVID-19 shutdown. jackpot level, another has quietly disclosed its permanent closure. As one Pennsylvania casino poker room has been drawing attention for reaching a record U.S.
