Commercial casinos grow in the US
Non-tribal casinos in the United States experienced a good performance during April.
US.- The University of Nevada Las Vegas Center for Gaming Research released data that shows that commercial casinos in the United States totaled US$3.48 billion in April. That number represents a 1 percent growth year-over-year.
Of all the 23 states that were studied during that period, Maryland casinos reported the biggest percentage jump with 30 percent annually to US$135 million. On the other hand, New Mexico experienced a 7.4 percent revenue drop to US$20.2 million. Moreover, Nevada still achieved the quarter of the nationwide total with US$886, a 1.2 percent growth anually.
Back in March, the facilities experienced a growth in revenue by almost 7 percent year-over-year. The overall results for commercial casinos totaled US$3.7 billion in March, up from the US$3.38 billion reported in January and the US$3.39 in February, a 3.5 and 2 percent increase year-over-year respectively. With these numbers, US casinos finish the first quarter of the year on a good page.
Despite the good results this year, the biggest state when it comes to revenue has lost multiple poker rooms in 2017: the state has been gradually shutting down tables since the peak of the poker boom and it only features 16, down from the 26 that it initially had in the 00s.
