Opening in late 2016, the poker room at MGM National Harbor has added some new tables.
Per the Baltimore Sun, the casino, which sits just outside the nation’s capital, opened its $48 million expansion on July 15, which included increasing the size of the poker room. Previously with 39 tables, the poker room now has 46, according to the casino’s website.
Additionally, the poker room was moved from the first floor to the second floor of the property.
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“We never anticipated the volume we’d have at this property,' the casino’s president Melonie Johnson told the newspaper. “That was the decision maker to move poker to the second floor.”
The expansion also included the addition of about 260 slot machines.
Through the first half of 2018, MGM National Harbor raked $10.4 million from its non-banked poker tables, the most among the state’s four casino poker rooms.
The statewide poker market through June was $22 million, down 1.3 percent compared to the same period in 2018, according to figures from state gaming regulators.
Maryland’s largest poker room still belongs to Live! Casino, which has 50 tables. The Hanover, MD poker room raked just under $8 million through the first half of the year.
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MGM Resorts has submitted their plans for the $925 million National Harbor Casino Resort in Prince George’s County, Maryland and is now awaiting approval from a planning board and county council.
The plan depicts a 958,836-square-foot facility complete with a 300-room hotel, a 1,200-seat theater, retail and restaurant space. The casino will include 3,600 slot machines and 140 table games.
MGM National Harbor is Maryland’s sixth gaming facility and resort executives hope to break ground this summer, with an opening date planned for July of 2016.
“We appreciate the county’s quick evaluation of these last important items,” said MGM National Harbor President Lorenzo Creighton in a statement. “Their swift action now will help us meet our ambitious goal of opening our doors as soon as the law allows so we can begin generating revenues for the county.”
