“Casino win” is important to us in Nevada because those numbers determine how much gaming tax will go into the state’s general fund. That follows a 1 percent increase last year and a steady upward climb over the past 10 years. The Nevada Gaming Control Board’s December statistical wrap-up released last week shares details about the financial fallout as well as specifics about the games to which gamblers gravitated.įirst, the ugly details many already know: Nevada’s nonrestricted gaming win - the big casinos and not the bars, taverns and convenience stores with fewer than 15 slot machines - fell 34.6 percent from 2019 to $7.87 billion for the calendar year. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) no arguing 2020 was one of the worst for casinos in years.
Gambers play blackjack on Thursday, May, 30, 2019, in Las Vegas at what was then SLS Las Vegas, now Sahara Las Vegas.
