Philadelphia Has More Slot Machines

With Pennsylvania allowing slot machines to come in, there will be gaming across the state. However, no area will have as many slot machines as Philadelphia. They will have two slot machine casinos built in the City of Brotherly Love, which will make them the largest city in the country with casinos. It seems only fitting that the city where our forefathers gambled with their fortunes should be the largest place for others to gamble on slot machines.

Slot machine parlors here are just adding to the amount of gambling that has been taking the mid-Atlantic by storm. New Jersey, New York, Connecticut – all have slot machine casinos. Pennsylvania and Delaware have slot machines at racetracks, and Delaware is looking to bring in slot machines as well. Philadelphia seems an unlikely place to have slot machines however, as the area really is founded by Quakers – and they believe that gambling and slot machines are immoral.

However, Governor Rendell does not care. He wants to see slot machines and casinos just like you would see in Las Vegas or Atlantic City. The mayor of Philadelphia is just as if not more excited than the governor to see the slot machine casinos come to his town. They are finishing up a convention center expansion in 2009 – and he thinks that not only are slot machines going to draw in the conventions, but the eventuality of table games being legalized as well. "If you want people to live in your city, to live in your region, to bring their conventions here, to bring their bodies here for vacation, you've got to have something for them," he says. "I want them to look like [slot machine] casinos, I want them to feel like [slot machine] casinos. A real [slot machine] casino with all of the opulence. I want to see a little neon."


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