South Lake Tahoe Gaming Revenue 2020
Gaming win in South Lake Tahoe reached $182.1 million in 2020. Compared with 2019, win fell 19.2 percent, or $43.3 million. In the 22 full years on record, South Lake Tahoe has never won less.
That ranks 4th among Nevada's ten county-level markets, and works out to 2.3% of the statewide total. Slot machines produced 70.9% of that, with table, counter and card games taking 29.1%. Sports Pool gained the most in dollar terms, adding $529,000, while slot machines gave back $31.2 million.
April and May report zero win because there was none: Nevada ordered every casino closed on 18 March 2020, and gaming didn't resume until 4 June.
Slot and table revenue in South Lake Tahoe, 2020
| Category | Win | Share | Year over year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slot machines | $129.2M | 70.9% | -19.4% |
| Table, counter and card games | $53.0M | 29.1% | -18.6% |
Revenue by game in South Lake Tahoe, 2020
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 | $129.2M | 70.9% | -19.4% |
| Twenty One | $20.6M | 11.3% | -16.0% |
| Craps | $7.74M | 4.2% | -15.7% |
| Other - Table Games | $7.44M | 4.1% | -38.5% |
| Roulette | $6.16M | 3.4% | -13.8% |
| Sports Pool | $5.80M | 3.2% | +10.0% |
| Pai Gow Poker | $2.50M | 1.4% | -6.2% |
| 3-Card Poker | $2.42M | 1.3% | -32.5% |
| Race Book | $342K | 0.2% | -42.8% |
Month by month, South Lake Tahoe 2020
| Month | Win | 2019 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | $20.2M | $16.9M | +19.3% |
| February | $17.7M | $14.6M | +21.4% |
| March | $9.05M | $15.9M | -43.1% |
| Aprilclosed by order | $0 | $13.1M | -100.0% |
| Mayclosed by order | $0 | $20.1M | -100.0% |
| June | $13.1M | $16.5M | -20.5% |
| July | $21.1M | $35.0M | -39.7% |
| August | $21.9M | $23.7M | -7.6% |
| September | $24.8M | $18.2M | +36.3% |
| October | $21.6M | $19.5M | +10.9% |
| November | $17.1M | $13.9M | +23.7% |
| December | $15.6M | $18.2M | -14.1% |
| Total 2020 | $182.1M | $225.4M | -19.2% |
September was the strongest month at $24.8 million.
Sports betting and race book detail, 2020
These rows break down the sports pool and race book figures already counted in the totals above. They sit inside the $182.1M, 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 - Football | $3.68M | +50.0% |
| Sports - Basketball | $802K | -43.2% |
| Other - Sports | $510K | +14.3% |
| Sports Parlay Cards | $496K | +1.2% |
| Sports - Baseball | $191K | -59.1% |
| Race Book Parimutuel | $127K | -78.2% |
| Sports - Hockey | $118K | — |
| Sports - Mobile | $113K | — |
About South Lake Tahoe
The South Shore Lake Tahoe casinos sit on the Nevada side of the state line at the lake's southern end, in Douglas County. This is Nevada's most seasonal gaming market, swinging with ski and summer lake traffic rather than convention calendars. Before mid-2018 the Control Board reported this line simply as "Douglas County"; the series here is continuous across that rename.
Other Nevada markets in 2020
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.