Maryland poker rooms raked $2.79 million throughout the month of August, in keeping with figures released Wednesday by state gaming regulators.

Through the primary eight months of the year, the poker rooms raked $23.33 million.

The $2.79 million was lower than the $3.13 million raked in August 2015. In the course of the first eight months of 2015, rake was $24.19 million.

House-banked game revenue was $35.42 million in August, bringing the volume won from those games to $261.7 million during the first two thirds of 2016.

Hollywood Casino Perryville raked $78,400 from poker during August, in comparison to $2.05 million at Maryland Live! and $660,000 from Horseshoe Casino Baltimore.

Maryland Live! and Horseshoe Baltimore have 52 and 25 poker tables, respectively. Hollywood’s poker site has eight tables.

March’s $3.24 million in rake is the high point of the year so far.

By year’s end, a $1.3 billion casino from MGM Resorts will open at National Harbor, which should grow the state’s poker market, though the casino hasn’t said what its poker site plans are.

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