{"id":14072,"date":"2020-02-18T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=14072"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:24:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:24:43","slug":"genesee-county-batavia-downs-gaming-records-the-busiest-week-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/genesee-county-batavia-downs-gaming-records-the-busiest-week-in-its-history\/","title":{"rendered":"GENESEE COUNTY\/Batavia Downs Gaming records the busiest week in its history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Press release<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Record Number of Jackpots and Payouts Were Also Won<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BATAVIA \u2013 Officials from Batavia Downs Gaming announced the week ending on Sunday, February 16th was the busiest week in its history.&nbsp; With over $18.5 Million in Credits Played\n for the week, Batavia Downs paid out over $17.3 Million in Credits Won including 740+ Jackpots.&nbsp; Four jackpots in excess of $20,000 were won, including amounts of $28,543, $24,340, $21,131 and $20,106.&nbsp; Saturday was the busiest day in the history of Batavia\n Downs Gaming with Credits Played topping $4.18 Million Credits, paying back $3.85 Million Credits to guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are excited to achieve these new benchmarks,\u201d said Henry Wojtaszek, President and CEO of Batavia Downs Gaming. \u201cWhile the Valentine\u2019s holiday, ticket giveaways, cash and\n tech gadget drawings certainly attributed to our record numbers, the most prominent reason was the Legends and Stars Autograph and Sports Memorabilia Show.&nbsp; Our guests do love their sports as we\u2019ve seen through the popularity of our suitestakes ticket giveaways.&nbsp;\n Given the chance to meet their heroes in person, Western New Yorkers showed up in droves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Autograph and Memorabilia show ran Saturday and Sunday and had record number of attendees due to the appearance of high profile former and current athletes including Michael\n Irvin, Ricky Williams and Josh Allen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The record week at Batavia Downs meant more monies would go back to State Education through the New York State Lottery, which Batavia Downs pays into daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDuring our record week, the facility generated over $616,000 for New York State education though our New York State Lottery contribution,\u201d said Jacquelyne Leach, Chief Financial\n Officer for Batavia Downs.&nbsp; \u201cThrough Sunday, Batavia Downs has contributed over $3.9 Million to New York State Education in 2020 alone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release Record Number of Jackpots and Payouts Were Also Won BATAVIA \u2013 Officials from Batavia Downs Gaming announced the week ending on Sunday, February 16th was the busiest week in its history.&nbsp; With over $18.5 Million in Credits Played for the week, Batavia Downs paid out over $17.3 Million \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/genesee-county-batavia-downs-gaming-records-the-busiest-week-in-its-history\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-14072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genesee-county","tag-batavia-downs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-3EY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44319,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/batavia-batavia-downs-records-their-busiest-week-of-all-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":14072,"position":0},"title":"BATAVIA\/Batavia Downs records their busiest week of all-time","author":"aka","date":"July 10, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Press release BATAVIA \u2013Western Region Off Track Betting (WROTB) and Batavia Downs President and CEO Henry Wojtaszek announced that the week from Sunday, July 2nd\u00a0through Saturday, July 8th\u00a0set new records; 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