{"id":293,"date":"2019-10-17T14:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=293"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:22:04","slug":"macau-vip-baccarat-ggr-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-vip-baccarat-ggr-down","title":{"rendered":"Macau VIP baccarat GGR down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau VIP baccarat gross gaming revenue (GGR) fell by 22,5% year-on-year in the third quarter, according to data released yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/macau-gaming-vip\"><strong><em>The rate of VIP annual decline was offset somewhat by the 20,5% year-on-year growth recorded for mass-segment baccarat GGR<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, according to the city\u2019s regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>DICJ<\/em><\/strong> confirmed that third-quarter aggregate VIP GGR was slightly below \u20ac3,5 billion, compared to \u20ac4,5 billion a year earlier. Also, in the breakdown for third-quarter 2019, mass-market baccarat GGR was nearly \u20ac3,4 billion; compared to \u20ac2,8 billion a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, third-quarter mass-market revenue including slots was just under \u20ac4,5 billion. As a proportion of all casino GGR in the period, it stood at just under 56,1%.VIP baccarat revenue as a\nproportion of all casino GGR in the third quarter stood at 43,9%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aggregate of Macau casino GGR for the nine months to\nSeptember 30 stood at \u20ac24,7 billion, a contraction of 1.7% year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, according to the official data presented, GGR from slot machines was just under \u20ac427,8 million in the third&nbsp;quarter, up 8,6% on the \u20ac393,1 million in the third quarter of 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third-quarter 2019 revenue from live multi game products \u2013 those featuring table-style games with live dealers but electronic betting and electronic bet settlement \u2013 was \u20ac82,5 million. Which represents an increase of 0,5% on the \u20ac82,1 million from the prior-year period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, the number of live-dealer gaming tables in the Macau market stood at 6,756 in the third&nbsp;quarter this year; compared with 6,734 registered at the end of the previous&nbsp;quarter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau VIP baccarat gross gaming revenue (GGR) fell by 22,5% year-on-year in the third quarter, according to data released yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's Q3 GGR data reveals a significant 22.5% year-on-year decline in VIP baccarat revenue, partially mitigated by a robust 20.5% growth in mass-segment baccarat GGR. This shift resulted in mass-market revenue comprising 56.1% of total casino GGR, indicating a structural rebalancing within the market.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"VIP vs. Mass Market Drivers?","query":"What are the underlying macroeconomic or policy drivers contributing to the significant shift from VIP to mass-market GGR in Macau?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Adjustments?","query":"How are Macau-based operators adjusting their capital expenditure and marketing strategies to capitalize on the growth in the mass-market segment?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[29,725,257],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-ggr","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010424,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/777010424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}