I’ve updated the Nevada June revenue/handle analysis:
>>>Nevada Gaming Statistics: June Comparison
Statewide, Las Vegas Strip, Boulder Strip, and Washoe County figures for June, 2004-2010 read report (pdf)
This time, I added a one-page “executive summary.” The summary’s necessary because I’ve realized that while the implications of the numbers in the tables seem perfectly obvious to me, most normal people don’t get quite as intimate with the Nevada gaming statistics as I do, so a narrative summary seemed like a good idea. The “executive” part is just to make people feel more important when reading it–like if they don’t bother to look at the rest of the report, it just means they’re a busy executive with no time to waste on trivial details.
Putting these monthly analyses together requires a fair amount of work, but seeing the numbers for seven years next to each other really puts the most recent month in perspective.
This June, it was about 90% bad news–the only real positive was that baccarat handle was up considerably on the Strip. Just about everything else was down, except table handle on the Boulder Strip, so it looks like M’s getting plenty of action, even if the sub-par hold percentage meant it didn’t translate into a bigger win.