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Table games at Maryland Live Casino generated $8.4 million in revenue in their first month at the Anne Arundel County facility, on top of $38.2 million from its slot machines, the state reported Monday. Meanwhile, Penn National eyes Prince George's license with bids due Friday.

Cordish project has dominated Mid-Atlantic but real competition looms when Baltimore, Prince George's get casinos

The dice were rolling, the roulette wheel was spinning and the cards were – literally – laid on the table Tuesday night, as Hollywood Casino Perryville premiered Maryland's first table games.

Horseshoe Cincinnati opens Monday and will help officials from Baltimore casino chart course

On March 7, Hollywood Casino in Perryville will be the first casino in Maryland to open its table games – pending approval by the state Legislature, of course.

Hollywood Casino in Perryville, owned by Penn National, got preliminary permission Tuesday to open 20 table games to the public starting March 7. Maryland Live, the state's largest casino, does not plan to offer table games until April 11.

Ill-considered bill to install slot machines at BWI shows how desperate some in Annapolis have become

For the fifth consecutive session, Maryland lawmakers will consider a bill to put slot machines at BWI Marshall Airport to help pay for roads projects.

Maryland's three casinos generated $45.2 million in revenue in December — most of that from Maryland Live, according to figures released Monday by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency.

Anne Arundel casino expects 10 percent increase in revenue with extended hours

From aspiring dealers to licensed healers, many Marylanders are like Dorsey Nicola, poised for a new era in the state's gambling scene. Long before the voter-approved expansion takes effect early next year — adding another casino and allowing table games at all of them — businesses, job seekers, unions, educators, regulators and psychologists have laid the groundwork to cash in.

The state's largest casino plans to install 150 table games that take wagers of up to $10,000, Maryland Live officials said Wednesday in the first detailed announcement since voters legalized table games last week.

With more than 16,500 early voters and the highest number of registered voters in Harford's history polling locations saw record turnouts Tuesday for the 2012 presidential election.

Company will cater to poker players now that expanded gaming has come to Maryland, still plans for mid-2014 opening

After the most expensive political campaign in Maryland's history, proponents of a plan to expand the reach and variety of casino gambling in Maryland won a narrow victory.

With just two days left until polls open on Election Day, all sides of Maryland's fiercely contested ballot questions are turning to their final task: getting their supporters into the voting booth.

Question 7 is a bad deal for Maryland taxpayers; voters should reject it and insist that our elected officials get us a better one.

As a teenager, Merson became interested in the game after watching poker tournaments on ESPN. Now, nearly a decade later, the 2005 Reservoir High School graduate is about to become one of the poker stars he used to watch.

Maryland will be better off if casinos are allowed table games

Revenue at Maryland's three casinos last month reached nearly $42.9 million in September, down from $44.6 million from the month before, according to figures released Friday morning from the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency.

For three casino giants trying to persuade Marylanders to vote for or against more gambling here, the long-term stakes could be in the billions.

For three casino giants trying to persuade Marylanders to vote for or against more gambling here, the long-term stakes could be in the billions.

Some gambling opponents are hoping to block a sixth casino from being built in Maryland by focusing their energy in one place: Prince George's County.

Center will offer training sessions and resources for therapists working with addicted gamblers

Franchot criticizes revised Rocky Gap deal as bait-and-switch

As a teenager, Merson became interested in the game after watching poker tournaments on ESPN. Now, nearly a decade later, the 2005 Reservoir High School graduate is about to become one of the poker stars he used to watch.

Gambling interests are spending millions to make a sixth casino sound like a better deal for Maryland than it really is.

Gambling giant Penn National Gaming Inc. wrote a check for $5.5 million last week to limit gambling in Maryland, the latest move in a casino vs. casino battle that could saturate the airwaves and overwhelm other ballot initiatives this fall.

Gov. Martin O'Malley was right that funding government through gambling is morally bankrupt.

This has the potential to be an unfortunate impediment to the counties' ability to enact the will of the people, a potential that was realized for decades with the blocking of legion posts from having slot machines.

Ten hours after the General Assembly gave final approval to an expansion of gambling in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed the bill that will put the hard-fought issue before the voters in November.

Lawmakers took Gov. Martin O'Malley's bad idea and made it terrible by transforming a gambling expansion bill into a massive gift to casino owners.

The Maryland General Assembly gave final approval to Gov. Martin O'Malley's gambling bill early Wednesday morning, agreeing to allow table games and a sixth casino in the state while also giving new tax breaks to casino owners.

Members of the House of Delegates weren't called to the floor for a debate on the controversial gambling expansion bill until 4:30 Tuesday afternoon although legislators were asked to be back by 2 p.m.

House gambling bill yields less for schools

A key House committee voted Monday night to guarantee deeper tax breaks for some Maryland casino operators, the most significant change so far to Gov. Martin O'Malley's gambling bill.

Maryland lawmakers are contemplating a shift from a limited, high-tax gambling philosophy to a more-is-better approach; if they choose the latter, they need to adopt a tax and regulatory structure that will make it successful.

Maryland lawmakers are poised this week to transform the state's restrictive gambling law into one that allows six full-blown Vegas-style casinos, complete with roulette wheels and poker tables open 24 hours a day.

The Maryland Senate prepared to take up the governor's gambling bill Friday as Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller expressed cautious optimism that the General Assembly will approve the measure by early next week.

First day of this year's second special session has Harford politicians still fired up

It should have dispensed with the facade limiting gambling when slots parlors were first legalized, or it should wait until the next regular legislative session to deal with an issue that comes up so regularly and that has proven so lackluster when it comes to solving the state's financial problems.

As the General Assembly this week gets back together in Annapolis for a special session on gambling expansion, let's took a look at the events that led them here:

Gov. Martin O'Malley unveiled legislation to expand gambling in Maryland on Tuesday night that seeks to limit the influence of gambling interests in state politics but also extends tax breaks to casino operators who would face increased competition if the plan is approved.

One of Maryland's three casinos has asked the state to take back about a third of the slots machines on its gaming floor because of declining revenue.