On a penny machine, for instance, $5 buys 500 credits. Players buy 'credits' on the machines, starting at a penny and going way up. The Casino at Ocean Downs on the Eastern Shore offers slots only.

In the past 11 months, slot machines have brought in 64 cents of every revenue dollar at the Maryland Live Casino in Anne Arundel County, where table games have been a bigger hit than some expected.Īt Hollywood Casino in Perryville and Rocky Gap Casino Resort near Cumberland - the other Maryland casinos offering both slots and table games - the machines made about 85 cents of every dollar.

While Yorke declined to say how slots would compare as earners to about 100 table games such as roulette, blackjack and 25 tables in Caesar's trademark World Series of Poker room, the machines have been huge revenue drivers in Maryland's burgeoning casino industry. The machines started arriving at the Horseshoe Casino near M&T Bank Stadium last month.