“Those baccarat totals led to the second highest game and table win totals all-time for the state and the Strip. “Then, of course, the baccarat figures are incredibly strong albeit due to extremely elevated hold,” Lawton said. “The Reader’s Digest version of what drove this month’s record win amounts is slot win, which although wasn’t an all-time record, it was the third-highest total all time for the state and the second-highest total for the Strip,” said Michael Lawton, senior economic analyst for the Gaming Control Board who crunches the state’s monthly gaming statistics. Baccarat revenue also was strong thanks to lucky casino play.
Slot machine revenue, while not at record levels, paced win in July. The state’s 439 licensed casinos won $1.4 billion from players in July, a 6.7 percent increase over a year ago when there were 453 casinos operating.Ĭlark County casinos won $1.2 billion from players and the Strip’s 60 licensees took $834.9 million of that, a record for that market. Southern Nevada endured a record heat wave in July, and gamblers enriched the state’s casinos more than in any month in history, breaking monthly gaming win records statewide and on the Strip, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Wednesday. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) temperatures were hot, the state’s casinos were hotter. New gaming space and Food Hall are part of Fremont Hotel Casino’s expansion in downtown Las Vegas Thursday, Jan.
