{"id":777012469,"date":"2024-01-17T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012469"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:55:23","slug":"macau-mass-baccarat-ggr-surges-12-6-in-q4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-mass-baccarat-ggr-surges-12-6-in-q4","title":{"rendered":"Macau mass baccarat GGR surges 12.6% in Q4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mass baccarat revenue was MOP33.53bn (US$4.16bn) in the fourth quarter of the year 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.-<strong> The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau<\/strong> has reported that mass baccarat gaming revenue was MOP33.53bn (US$4.16bn) in the fourth quarter of 2023. That\u2019s\u00a0a rise of 12.6<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-vip-baccarat-revenue-drops-by-3-2-in-q3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> per cent sequentially<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to authorities, this figure also represented approximately 109.2 per cent of the mass-market baccarat gross gaming revenue (GGR) in the same quarter of 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>VIP baccarat experienced a 7.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter rise<\/strong>, contributing MOP12.70bn and accounting for around 39.3 per cent of the fourth-quarter 2019 levels. VIP baccarat held a 23.5 per cent market share of GGR in the final quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slot machine revenue was also up 4.1 per cent quarter-on-quarter to MOP2.97bn, with a market share of approximately 5.5 per cent. The mass-market segment, including slot machines, surpassed MOP41.41bn, constituting nearly 76.5 per cent of Macau&#8217;s casino GGR for the three months ending December 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This quarterly result in the overall mass-market GGR domain represented 103.9 per cent of the MOP39.84bn achieved in the comparable period of 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau&#8217;s fourth-quarter GGR stood at MOP54.11bn, up 10.9 per cent quarter-on-quarter.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-30-6-in-october\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October emerged as the standout month<\/a>, marking the highest performance since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass baccarat revenue was MOP33.53bn (US$4.16bn) in the fourth quarter of the year 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's Q4 2023 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) reached MOP54.11bn, a 10.9% sequential increase, driven significantly by the mass-market segment. Mass baccarat revenue surged 12.6% quarter-on-quarter, surpassing 2019 pre-pandemic levels, while VIP baccarat also saw a 7.9% rise, though remaining below 2019 figures. The overall mass-market segment now constitutes 76.5% of Macau's casino GGR.","focusai_entities":"Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.78), journalist_researcher (0.92)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Mass Market Drivers?","query":"What specific operational and marketing strategies have Macau's concessionaires implemented to drive mass-market baccarat revenue beyond 2019 levels, and are these sustainable?"},{"label":"VIP Segment Outlook?","query":"Given the VIP baccarat segment's continued underperformance relative to 2019, what are the long-term projections for this vertical, and how will operators adapt their high-roller strategies?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777012469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012469","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777012469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012470,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012469\/revisions\/777012470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}