Exhibit 5.1
1650 Market Street | Suite 3300 | Philadelphia, PA 19103 | T 215.252.9600 | F 215.867.6070
Holland & Knight LLP | www.hklaw.com
July 31, 2024
Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc.
GLP Capital, L.P.
845 Berkshire Blvd., Suite 200
Wyomissing, PA 19610
Re: Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Nos. 333-266814, 333-266814-01 and 333-266814-02)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Nos. 333-266814, 333-266814-01 and 333-266814-02) (the
Registration Statement) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) on August 12, 2022 by Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (the Company), pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Act). We are rendering this opinion letter as your Pennsylvania counsel in connection with the filing of a preliminary prospectus supplement dated July 30, 2024 (the
Preliminary Prospectus Supplement) and final prospectus supplement to be dated July 30, 2024 (the Final Prospectus Supplement), to the prospectus included in the Registration Statement (the Prospectus). The
Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the Final Prospectus Supplement relate to the offering of (a) $800.0 million aggregate principal amount of 5.625% Senior Notes due 2034 (the 2034 Notes) and (b) $400.0 million aggregate
principal amount of 6.250% Senior Notes due 2054 (the 2054 Notes, and together with the 2034 Notes, the Notes) co-issued by GLP Capital, L.P., a Pennsylvania limited partnership (the
Partnership), and GLP Financing, II, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Partnership (the Co-Issuer and, together with the Partnership, the
Issuers) and guaranteed by the Company, pursuant to that certain Underwriting Agreement, dated July 30, 2024 (the Underwriting Agreement), among the Issuers, the Company and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Citizens JMP
Securities, LLC, Fifth Third Securities, Inc. and Truist Securities, Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement.
As your Pennsylvania counsel, we have examined all such documents that we have considered necessary in order to enable us to render this
opinion letter, including, but not limited to, (i) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus; (ii) the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and form of Final Prospectus Supplement; (iii) the Underwriting Agreement; (iv) the
Indenture, dated as of October 30, 2013, among the Issuers, the Company, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 28, 2016, among the Issuers, the Company,
and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, the intended form of Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, which is anticipated to be dated on or about August 6, 2024 and entered into by the Issuers, the Company and Wells Fargo Bank,
National Association, as Trustee, relating to the 2034 Notes, and the intended form of Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture, which is anticipated to be dated on or about August 6, 2024 and entered into by the Issuers, the Company and Wells Fargo
Bank, National Association, as Trustee, relating to the 2054 Notes (collectively, the Indenture); (v) the intended form of the 2034 global note, to be registered in the name of The Depository Trust Companys nominee, Cede &
Co., representing the 2034 Notes (the 2034 Global Note) and the intended form of the 2054 global note, to be registered in the name of The Depository Trust Companys nominee, Cede & Co., representing the 2054 Notes (the
2054 Global Note, and together with the 2034 Global Note, the Global Notes); (vi) the intended form of the notation of guarantee, to be made by the Company for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, to be annexed to the
Global Notes (the Guarantees); (vii) the Companys Articles of Incorporation, as amended; (viii) the Companys Bylaws, as amended; (iv) certain resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company and the
Company as the general partner of the Partnership, in connection with the authorization, issuance and sale of the Notes (the Board Resolutions); (x) the Partnerships Certificate of Limited Partnership; (xi) the
Partnerships Agreement of Limited Partnership, as amended (the Partnership Agreement); (xii) certain corporate certificates, records and instruments; and (xiii) such laws and regulations as we have deemed necessary for the
purposes of rendering the opinions set forth herein.