While downtown Las Vegas and Strip slot coin-in fell 40.9 percent and 40.3 percent, respectively, in 2020, table-game drop didn’t fall as dramatically downtown. Slot coin-in decreased 31.6 percent to $78.61 billion, while table drop fell 35.5 percent to $19.1 billion statewide. Thanks to the 78-day shutdown of casinos from mid-March through early June, the coin-in for slot machines and the table-game drop - the amount wagered - fell dramatically in 2020.

Compare that with drops of 32.2 percent to $464.2 million in downtown Las Vegas, 24 percent to $655.4 million on the Boulder Strip, 32.4 percent to $204.5 million in North Las Vegas, 28.4 percent to $366.7 million in Laughlin and 20.5 percent to $108.6 million in Mesquite. Total win on the Strip fell 43.3 percent to $3.73 billion. Gaming win evidence supports the theory that the Strip has been hurt worse in the pandemic than other markets, which makes sense because international travel is virtually gone. Win trends in Southern Nevada were fairly consistent with the rest of the state’s trends.Ĭlark County casinos reported total win of $6.54 billion, down 36.8 percent, with $4.29 billion from slots and $2.25 billion from table games. It’s clear that slot machines still command most of the casino gambler’s attention with slot win generating 68.8 percent of the total gaming win in 2020. Slot machine win fell 31.7 percent to $5.42 billion for the year, while table game win was off 40 percent to $2.46 billion. “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.

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