Does anybody know where I can find historical gambling revenues of Vegas and AC casinos? Just to be clear, I’m looking for revenues directly from gambling only. I’d also like to see a comparison of total gambling revenues for each city (adding up all of the casinos in each city).
Thanks in advance.
I’m just giving this a one-time bump in case someone new sees this and can help. I’ve got 2 friends betting a $100 over the answer.
I don’t think the casinos publish their revenues. No hard cite, but I saw an “Inside Las Vegas” or some such show, they were showing the flow of money through the casinos from the tables to the cage to the hard count room. As they were loading it into armored cars to take to the bank, some comment was made that the exact totals deposited were guarded secrets.
I’m sure the State of Nevada (or New Jersey) and the IRS might have these figures, not sure they’d share. And most of the casinos are corporations now days, IIRC, they might have financial statements you could reference.
And I’d put my money on Vegas as far as revenue by city.
One friend’s point was that Vegas makes more of its money in non-gambling and that the real gamblers come to AC.
Like what??
I don’t think hover dam tours or shows are making much difference. If you want to pick on where the “Real” gamblers go you might want to look for places faar less developed that user looser games to attract customers like Primm or Laughlin, Nevada. Some of those places exist almost purely on gambling revenues with just about every other expense dirt cheap or comped.
Ah, but the real gamblers aren’t the main source of revenue for the casinos. It’s the casual “gambler” that feeds the slots, and the slots are where the revenue comes from.
Atlantic city has apparently far fewer casinos than Las Vegas, one site lists 12. I’ll wager Las Vegas has many more tourists dropping coins into many, many more slot machines.
My money is still on Vegas.
I hear you. It almost seems obvious that Vegas would have higher gambling revenue than AC. However, the one stat I managed to find has 2004 total Nevada gambling revenues at 2.2 times AC. I don’t know what proportion of Nevada’s total is Vegas. Here’s the link: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Jun-22-Wed-2005/business/2221014.html
OK, here’s a link to the Nevada Gaming Commision Revenue site. Here’s a PDF of the 2005 Revenue for all locations in Nevada, broken down into counties and even areas in the counties.