State gaming win hits 8th straight month of $1B+ in October

Nevada casinos successful October tied the grounds by winning much than $1 cardinal from players for the eighth consecutive month, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Tuesday.

The authorities triumph was a 48.5 percent betterment implicit the erstwhile year.

The past clip the authorities won much than $1 cardinal 8 months successful a enactment was from November 2006 to May 2007.

Clark County was a large contributor to the effort, collecting 86.5 percent — $1.057 cardinal — of the authorities total.

The Strip was a large portion of the region full with $702.2 cardinal won, an 86.9 percent betterment implicit October 2020. For the archetypal 4 months of the 2022 fiscal year, Strip triumph has much than doubled from the aforesaid play past twelvemonth to $2.761 billion.

Only 2 of the 20 markets monitored by the Control Board had months that were worse than the erstwhile year. One of those was South Lake Tahoe, down 25.8 percent from the erstwhile twelvemonth to $16 million. That portion successful October was inactive recovering from the devastating effects of the Caldor Fire that raged on the California-Nevada borderline opening successful mid-August. The occurrence was officially considered contained Oct. 21.

The different marketplace that stumbled: North Lake Tahoe, down 2.9 percent to $2.2 million.

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