Will it be Baccarat or Blackjack in the future? Will Las Vegas or Macau get all the VIP Whales? Currently Macau has a steady increasing revenue for 8th months in a row, while Nevada reports a decrease.. Have a look at the articles below where a thorough review has been done..
Industry: Blackjack might be dethroning baccarat in Vegas gaming revenue
Industry: Blackjack might be dethroning baccarat in Vegas gaming revenue When Nevada’s February gaming results were released this past week, the common analysis was that Nevada’s 4.48% decrease in gaming revenue was mostly attributable to February of 2016 having 29 days in it verses February of 2017 having 28 days.
Well, it was not as simple as that; convenient and easy to point to as the big difference, yes, but as with most things there is much more to the story.
Slots are yet another story. Slot win was down statewide 4.57% on a month over month basis but only down 1.14% when adjusting for the extra day in February of the prior year. This was as much from volume as it was that as the industry gets even more competitive and the players have become more value sensitive; the average slot machine hold percentages have fallen around a half percent from the prior year.
