Poker rooms in Pennsylvania casinos collectively raked $4.96 million from players through the month of July, consistent with figures released by state casino gambling regulators.

There have been 226 poker tables across 10 poker rooms statewide. Pennsylvania has a dozen brick-and-mortar casinos.

The $4.96 million was basically unchanged from the $4.97 million raked in July 2015. There were two more poker tables this July in comparison to the similar month last year.

On the $4.96 million in rake, the casinos collectively paid nearly $600,000 in state taxes.

Parx Casino, which sits just outside Philly in Bensalem, led the best way in July 2016 with $1.37 million in poker revenue. That casino had 46 poker tables in July.

The poker market in Pennsylvania is growing, because the casinos recently reported $58.4 million in poker revenue within the 2015/16 fiscal year ending in June. That was up slightly from the $56.5 million in poker rake collected in FY 2014/15.

Though it has a significantly larger overall casino gambling market, Pennsylvania and New Jersey were nearly identical in July on the subject of poker revenue. Atlantic City casinos also raked $5 million, but included in that figure was $2 million from state-licensed online poker sites. Like New Jersey, Maryland’s live poker market was roughly $3 million in July.

Pennsylvania is closing in on legalizing online poker this fall.

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