Nevada’s casino industry reported a total gaming win of $887.4 million for the month of June, according to figures released by Silver State gaming regulators. This amounted to a 6.80-percent increase compared to June 2015, when the unrestricted gaming licensees reported a gaming win of $830.9 million.
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, gaming win increased 0.66 percent to $11.1 billion. That followed a roughly one-percent decrease the previous fiscal year.
Nevada has roughly 330 gambling facilities.
Gaming revenue on the Las Vegas Strip, the largest concentration of casinos in the state, grew nearly 10 percent year-over-year in June to $488.9 million, regulators said. Clark County overall grew 7.33 percent to $761.62 million compared to June 2015.
The gaming revenue growth during June was partly thanks to baccarat revenue increasing 31.6 percent year-over-year to $76.93 million. Revenue from slot machines was also up big in June, increasing 6.95 percent to $594.7 million. Nevada has more than 146,000 slot machines, compared to roughly 6,000 table games.
Revenue from poker increased 1.88 percent to 16.14 million in June. It was the best June for Nevada’s poker industry since 2009. For the fiscal year that just ended, statewide poker revenue was $117.1 million, down 1.15 percent compared to the same period a year ago.
Nevada casinos won $11.11 billion from gamblers in 2015, a small increase from $11.02 billion the previous year. The all-time high for Nevada gaming in a calendar year was $12.85 billion won in 2007, the year before the Great Recession. Since then, Nevada’s casino industry has relied less on gambling than ever before.
And Pennsylvania, who is the second largest commercial casino gambling market in America, saw its casinos win $3.2 billion from gamblers in the 2015/16 fiscal year ending last month. The amount was a 3.6-percent increase compared to the FY 2014/15 and also a record high.
