Boulder Strip Gaming Revenue 2012
Gaming win on the Boulder Strip reached $796.7 million in 2012. The figure is 2.3 percent above 2011, worth $17.8 million in additional win.
That ranks 2nd among Nevada's ten reported sub-areas, and works out to 7.3% of the statewide total. This is a slot market first: machines account for 86.6% of win, tables for 13.4%. Slot machines gained the most in dollar terms, adding $18.7 million, while Mini-Baccarat gave back $2.34 million.
For 2012, the Control Board reported this market as "Clark County Boulder Strip Area". It is the same reporting line as Boulder Strip.
Slot and table revenue in Boulder Strip, 2012
| Category | Win | Share | Year over year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slot machines | $689.6M | 86.6% | +2.8% |
| Table, counter and card games | $107.1M | 13.4% | -0.8% |
Revenue by game in Boulder Strip, 2012
Game names follow the Control Board's own labels, so blackjack appears here as Twenty One. Slots are reported one row per denomination, which says more about which machines a floor happens to run than about how it performed, so this table combines them into a single line.
| Game | Win | Share | Year over year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slot machines | $689.6M | 86.6% | +2.8% |
| Sports Pool | $26.4M | 3.3% | -0.2% |
| Twenty One | $24.2M | 3.0% | -4.2% |
| Craps | $18.0M | 2.3% | +27.6% |
| Race Book | $8.75M | 1.1% | -6.4% |
| Card Games | $7.82M | 1.0% | -5.8% |
| Roulette | $4.87M | 0.6% | +19.5% |
| Pai Gow Poker | $4.77M | 0.6% | -11.3% |
| Other - Table Games | $4.28M | 0.5% | -17.8% |
| Keno | $2.81M | 0.4% | +4.8% |
| 3-Card Poker | $2.31M | 0.3% | +6.3% |
| Mini-Baccarat | $1.34M | 0.2% | -63.5% |
| Pai Gow | $1.19M | 0.1% | — |
| Let It Ride | $1.09M | 0.1% | -2.5% |
Month by month, Boulder Strip 2012
| Month | Win | 2011 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | $84.3M | $77.6M | +8.7% |
| February | $71.7M | $58.3M | +22.9% |
| March | $62.8M | $75.6M | -17.0% |
| April | $70.2M | $58.3M | +20.4% |
| May | $76.1M | $69.6M | +9.2% |
| June | $50.5M | $65.5M | -22.8% |
| July | $72.6M | $61.9M | +17.3% |
| August | $55.6M | $67.6M | -17.7% |
| September | $67.3M | $54.2M | +24.2% |
| October | $74.5M | $68.9M | +8.1% |
| November | $52.7M | $71.6M | -26.4% |
| December | $58.4M | $49.8M | +17.4% |
| Total 2012 | $796.7M | $778.9M | +2.3% |
January was the strongest month at $84.3 million.
Sports betting and race book detail, 2012
These rows break down the sports pool and race book figures already counted in the totals above. They sit inside the $796.7M, so adding them to it would count the same money twice. Sports – Mobile reports how much of the sports win arrived through a phone.
| Line | Win | Year over year |
|---|---|---|
| Football | $11.2M | -28.7% |
| Race Pari-Mutuel | $10.7M | +5.6% |
| Basketball | $7.12M | +20.4% |
| Baseball | $6.43M | +139.1% |
| Sports Parlay Cards | $1.83M | -9.5% |
| Sports Pari-Mutuel | $0 | — |
| Other - Sports | $-169K | -238.5% |
About Boulder Strip
The Boulder Strip runs along Boulder Highway through eastern Las Vegas and Henderson. It's the archetypal Las Vegas locals market: heavily slot-weighted, driven by resident play rather than visitation, and steadier month to month than the Strip. Separate reporting begins in 2018.
Other Nevada markets in 2012
All figures are gaming win at nonrestricted locations, taken from the Nevada Gaming Control Board's monthly Gaming Revenue Information reports. Win is what casinos kept after paying winning wagers, before taxes and operating costs. Restricted locations, the taverns and stores running fifteen machines or fewer, are reported separately and excluded here.
Every month since 2004, in one API call.
The tables on this page are aggregates. The API returns the underlying records: every game, region, and location type, month by month.