Casinos Concerned With Kansas

With Kansas’ governor signing a bill that could make slot machines legal in the state, many neighboring casinos are concerned with how it will affect their revenue. There are several casinos in the Missouri market that would suffer from the reduction in slot machine revenue, as their current Kansas customers would undoubtedly choose to stay in their home state.

Missouri casinos such as Harrah’s Entertainment, Isle of Capri, Penn National Gaming and Ameristar Casinos will be duly impacted by the change in gambling status for Kansas. Most of the current slot machine revenue that comes out of Kansas will now stay there, but most casinos are not planning on worrying about it just yet.

Several of them said that they were going to keep an eye on the situation, but not do anything about it just yet. They know that the people of Kansas are hesitant to approve that much gambling – so they stand a real chance of it not passing. In fact, those larger casinos such as MGM Mirage or Wynn, probably won’t even be interested in setting up shop in Kansas – their sites are on Macau and the Strip right now.

The amount of slot machines coming in could reach more than 10,000 by the time everything is up and running. Initially it would only be around 2,200 split up, but once all of the casinos open and the tracks have their allotment of slot machines, you could be looking at the biggest gaming shift across the US since Pennsylvania legalized 65,000 slot machines across their state.


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