Lyon County Gaming Revenue 2008
Gaming win in Lyon County reached $41.1 million in 2008. Compared with 2007, win fell 4.9 percent, or $2.10 million.
That ranks 7th among Nevada's ten county-level markets, and works out to 0.4% of the statewide total. This is a slot market first: machines account for 98.7% of win, tables for 1.3%. Card Games gained the most in dollar terms, adding $12,000, while slot machines gave back $2.05 million.
Slot and table revenue in Lyon County, 2008
| Category | Win | Share | Year over year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slot machines | $40.5M | 98.7% | -4.8% |
| Table, counter and card games | $543K | 1.3% | -8.1% |
Revenue by game in Lyon County, 2008
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 | $40.5M | 98.7% | -4.8% |
| Sports Pool | $311K | 0.8% | -17.7% |
| Other - Table Games | $135K | 0.3% | +1.5% |
| Card Games | $85K | 0.2% | +16.4% |
| Race Book | $12K | 0.0% | +71.4% |
Month by month, Lyon County 2008
| Month | Win | 2007 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | $3.17M | $3.60M | -12.0% |
| February | $3.55M | $3.40M | +4.6% |
| March | $3.71M | $3.68M | +0.9% |
| April | $3.26M | $3.28M | -0.6% |
| May | $3.76M | $3.48M | +8.0% |
| June | $3.60M | $3.58M | +0.5% |
| July | $3.42M | $3.60M | -5.0% |
| August | $3.38M | $3.65M | -7.6% |
| September | $3.15M | $3.64M | -13.4% |
| October | $3.50M | $3.56M | -1.7% |
| November | $3.29M | $3.75M | -12.2% |
| December | $3.30M | $3.98M | -17.0% |
| Total 2008 | $41.1M | $43.2M | -4.9% |
May was the strongest month at $3.76 million.
Sports betting and race book detail, 2008
These rows break down the sports pool and race book figures already counted in the totals above. They sit inside the $41.1M, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sports Parlay Cards | $117K | -10.7% |
| Basketball | $93K | +75.5% |
| Baseball | $47K | +9.3% |
| Football | $35K | -73.7% |
| Other - Sports | $17K | -101.1% |
| Sports Pari-Mutuel | $0 | — |
| Race Pari-Mutuel | $0 | — |
About Lyon County
Lyon County, southeast of Reno around Dayton and Fernley, is one of Nevada's smaller reported gaming markets. Its results largely follow the residential growth spilling out of the Reno-Sparks metro area.
Other Nevada markets in 2008
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.