{"id":7930,"date":"2014-08-28T16:39:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/28\/las-vegas-strip-leads-state-in-gaming-revenue-in-july\/"},"modified":"2014-08-28T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:39:27","slug":"las-vegas-strip-leads-state-in-gaming-revenue-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/28\/las-vegas-strip-leads-state-in-gaming-revenue-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Strip leads state in gaming revenue in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nHoward Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/p>\n<p>\tNevada gaming revenue increased less than 1 percent in July while Strip casinos saw an increase of 4.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\tDuring the month, casinos statewide took in $931.8 million from gamblers. Strip casinos collected $536.2 million in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe figures were released Thursday by the Gaming Control Board.<\/p>\n<p>\tJuly\u2019s totals could be viewed as a letdown following June\u2019s 14.3 percent statewide increase, which included a 22.5 percent gaming revenue increase on the Strip.<\/p>\n<p>\tSeveral reporting markets in Clark County suffered gaming revenue decreases in July, including the Boulder Strip, downtown and North Las Vegas. On a whole, Clark County gaming revenue increased 2.2 percent in the month.<\/p>\n<p>\tNevada\u2019s three online poker websites collected revenue of $985,000 after cracking the $1 million mark for the first time in June.<\/p>\n<p>\tNorthern Nevada casinos had a down month in July. Washoe County, which includes Reno, saw gaming revenue decrease 1 percent as a whole. Reno casinos experienced a 2.3 percent revenue decline. Casinos in South Lake Tahoe had the state\u2019s largest gaming revenue decline in July, down 22 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe state collected $52.2 million in gaming taxes during August, based on the July revenue total, a decline of 14.7 percent. In the first two months of the fiscal year, gaming tax collection are down 7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\tThis is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada gaming revenue increased less than 1 percent in July while Strip casinos saw an increase of 4.8 percent. During the month, casinos statewide took in $931.8 million from gamblers. Strip casinos collected $536.2 million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}