Penn National Gaming Names Anthony Carlucci General Manager of Hollywood Casino Tunica

Carlucci, Most Recently Assistant GM at Boomtown Biloxi, Brings 27
Years of Gaming Industry Experience to New Role

WYOMISSING, Pa. & TUNICA, Miss.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 9, 2009–
Penn National Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: PENN) introduced as we speak that efficient
instantly, Anthony Carlucci, 48, has been named General Manager of
Hollywood Casino Tunica, topic to regulatory approval. Carlucci, most
lately the Assistant General Manager at Penn National’s Boomtown
Biloxi property, fills the General Manager place at Hollywood Casino
Tunica beforehand held by John Osborne, who was named the General
Manager of Penn National’s Hollywood Slots Hotel & Raceway in Bangor,
Maine on September 28.

Anthony Carlucci has held varied administration positions within the gaming
trade beginning in 1982 at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City. Carlucci
moved throughout the Harrah’s group and served as Director of Food
and Beverage at Harrah’s Metropolis in southern Illinois from March 2001
to November 2002. Following his tenure with Harrah’s, Carlucci joined
Argosy Gaming Company (which was acquired by Penn National in 2005) and
from November 2002 via 2007 served as Director of Operations at
Empress Casino Hotel in Joliet, Illinois. In 2007 he joined Penn
National’s Boomtown Biloxi in Mississippi as Assistant General Manager.
Carlucci is a registered Certified Public Accountant (in Maryland). In
his new function, Anthony Carlucci shall be chargeable for all aspects of
operations at Hollywood Casino Tunica.

Thomas P. Burke, Senior Vice President Regional Operations of Penn
National Gaming, commented, “Anthony brings a robust monetary
background and wealth of operational expertise to his new function as
General Manager of Hollywood Casino Tunica. Throughout his 27 yr
profession within the gaming trade, Anthony has assumed rising ranges of
duty in areas corresponding to on line casino flooring administration, lodge
administration and meals and beverage administration and has developed glorious
human sources expertise. Anthony has constructed a strong popularity as a
gifted and devoted govt and we’ve got been very impressed with
his contributions in Biloxi. We search for Anthony to construct upon John
Osborne’s success at Hollywood Casino Tunica and to take care of a excessive
degree of involvement for the property in the neighborhood.”

About Penn National Gaming

Penn National Gaming owns and operates gaming and racing services with
a give attention to slot machine leisure. The Company presently operates
nineteen services in fifteen jurisdictions, together with Colorado,
Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi,
Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and
Ontario. In combination, Penn National’s operated services characteristic over
26,300 gaming machines, roughly 400 desk video games, over 2,000 lodge
rooms and over 959,000 sq. toes of gaming flooring house.

In addition to historic details or statements of present circumstances,
this press launch incorporates forward-looking statements that contain
dangers and uncertainties throughout the that means of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements replicate
the Company’s present expectations and beliefs however are usually not ensures of
future efficiency. As such precise outcomes might fluctuate materially from
expectations. Meaningful elements that might trigger precise outcomes to
differ from expectations are disclosed within the Company’s Annual Report on
Form 10-Ok for the yr ended December 31, 2008, subsequent Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-Ok as filed with the
SEC. The Company doesn’t intend to replace publicly any forward-looking
statements besides as required by legislation.

Source: Penn National Gaming, Inc.

Penn National Gaming, Inc.
William J. Clifford, 610-373-2400
Chief
Financial Officer
or
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