HARRISBURG — April gambling receipts from table games at Pennsylvania casinos fell 9 percent, according to state figures, just a month after hitting a record high as competition grows in bordering states.

Gross revenue from the 11 casinos in April was $56.5 million, down from March receipts of $61.9 million, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board said. It beat April 2011 receipts by 7 percent, but per-table revenue fell 10 percent from the year-ago period.

SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia by far had the highest per-table average, with almost $136,000 per table in April. In last place was the Meadows Racetrack and Casino in suburban Pittsburgh, collecting $34,000 per table.

Pennsylvania first licensed slot-machine casinos in 2006 before authorizing table games in 2010. Its gambling market is now the nation’s second-largest behind Las Vegas.

But casinos are opening nearby.

Ohio’s first casino opened Monday, and three more are planned this year. In Maryland, two casinos are open, a third is opening in June and regulators licensed a fourth last month.

By law, Pennsylvania could one day be home to 14 casinos.

But one license is tied to a yet-to-be-built horse racing track, another license awarded to a southwestern Pennsylvania resort is being challenged in court and a third license was revoked in 2010 from the former Foxwoods Philadelphia project.

The state House of Representatives earlier this month passed a bill that would require the state to auction the revoked Philadelphia license, undoing the 2004 law that required state regulators to award it to the fittest site in Philadelphia. The bill is pending in the Senate.