Any increases or declines, year-over-year, haven’t been particularly meaningful over the last few years, so total revenues seem fairly steady. 2017 compared to 2016 is at least slightly promising (though not much) in Live Gambling Revenue, as that is the first year-over-year period not to see a decline in the last decade.įrom a standpoint of overall revenues for the city, there’s no reason to believe that these sorts of numbers will not continue into 2018. Ultimately, these numbers would mark back-to-back increases of one year as compared to the other, though both have relied mostly upon Internet gambling. In the meantime, Internet revenue is through the roof, enjoying an increase of 24.9% over the year of 2016 and an astounding 64.969% increase comparing 2017 to 2015. The total difference is roughly 829,000, which may amount to nothing more than an extra jackpot here or there on a very high-limit machine. Essentially, they have returned to 2015 numbers in that regard. While Atlantic City may be a few hundredths of a percent short on Live Casino revenue for 2017, as compared to 2015, we do see an uptick of three-tenths of a percent as compared to 2016. We will also see, in the next chart, that Atlantic City continued to steady throughout last year.

The biggest actual event of 2016 was the closing of the Trump Taj Mahal, which enabled the State of New Jersey to enjoy the entire year of 2017 with none of its casinos expected to close, or honestly, at any real risk of closing. Granted, live revenue was still down three-tenths of a percent, and the net gain of 1.5% required online gaming to go up 32.1%, but if the long-suffering Atlantic City can get a positive.they are right to grab it and hold on tight. You may have also wondered why I haven’t written about this much recently, and the answer to that is because things have been pretty steady, compared to 2016, since the last time I did.Īnyway, the big takeaway for Atlantic City as the dice rolled from 2015 into 2016 was that they experienced the first increase in total casino revenue (if you include online) in about a decade. Of course, if you follow this series of articles, you have already seen this chart. * Did not operate online for the entire year of 2015. NOTE: Caesars Interactive Internet Revenues will be Applied to Caesars: Casino Here they are, rounded to the nearest thousand.

The first thing that we should do is open up with a couple of charts detailing Atlantic City’s annual gambling revenues from 2015-2017 because it’s just easier that way.

Atlantic city jackpots 2017 results