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April traditionally is a slow month for casinos, but they had the highest win ever for the month in 2024 despite an early Easter and the closure of the Tropicana.

April traditionally is a weak month for casinos, but they had the highest win ever for the month in 2024 despite an early Easter and the closure of the Tropicana.

It was one of three six-figure jackpots to hit recently in the Las Vegas Valley.

February was the fifth-best month for gaming win in history with $1.342 billion won by Nevada casinos when the Super Bowl was played in Las Vegas.

Nevada casinos won $1.27 billion from gamblers in January, a month sandwiched between big resort openings in December and Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Feb. 11.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Las Vegas Strip was the top U.S. gambling market in 2023, with the casinos there winning $8.83 billion, a 7.2% increase over 2022.

The nation’s commercial casinos generated $66.52 billion in 2023 — the third straight year of record performance — and a 10 percent increase from 2022.

MGM Resorts International pushed in all its chips on the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix. The company won big, producing 14 percent quarterly increases in Strip gaming and hotel revenue.

Higher administrative costs cut into casino profits in the 2022-23 fiscal year, the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s Gaming Abstract says.

The Nevada Appeal, the Silver States oldest continuously run newspaper, first published on May 16, 1865.