Gaming revenue in the state of Nevada fell below $1 billion for the first time this year when the April numbers came in at just over $936 million. Total revenue for the stats was down 1.8% from last year. Most of the states revenue is derived from slot machine play, which accounted for $658.8 million of the total gaming revenue. There was, however, a drop of nearly 6% in casino table games, card games and sports and race betting to just short of $278 million. Read more at iGaming Business.

Reuters – Macau, the world’s casino capital, raked in 31.3 billion patacas ($3.92 billion) in gambling revenue in April thanks to strong spending by Chinese visitors keen to place their bets in the country’s only legal casino hub. Gambling revenue growth in Macau, a special administrative region like neighbouring Hong Kong, was up 10.6 percent in April, beating analyst estimates of 6-8 percent growth. A Portuguese colony until 1999, Macau earns the equivalent of Las Vegas’ annual haul in less than two months. Annual revenues reached a record $45 billion in 2013, elevating the tiny territory high above rival gaming…

CNBC – Las Vegas is easily America’s city that is most synonymous with recreational risk-taking. Atlantic City, especially for those on the East Coast, has also long been known as a place to take a chance on blackjack or drop coins in a slot machine. But in truth, the United States is dotted with gambling havens from coast to coast. With tax rates up to 40 percent, these businesses can generate hundreds of millions in state revenues. We decided to look at the states with the most revenue from commercial gambling in 2012. Some of the 13 states that made…

Canton Rep – What had been money in the pockets of betting men and women and became loot lost on the craps tables, slot machines and other games of chance at the Ohio’s four casinos has landed in the coffers of local public and charter school districts. What had been money in the pockets of betting men and women and became loot lost on the craps tables, slot machines and other games of chance at the Ohio’s four casinos has landed in the coffers of local public and charter school districts. The Ohio Department of Taxation distributed $47.3 million in…

The Gambling Authority has revealed that gross gaming Denmark gaming revenue increased from DKK2.045 billion (€273 million/$375 million) in 2012 to DKK2.375 billion in 2013 despite a sharp fall in online poker revenue. Full-year online poker revenue dropped from DKK220 million in 2012 to DKK195 million in 2013, but increases in all other metrics secured an overall increase in gross gaming revenue. SKAT said that betting revenue increased from DKK1.175 billion to DKK1.385 billion, while gambling on games shifted up from DKK870 million to DKK990 million. In the fourth quarter of 2013, through to December 31, betting increased from DKK355…

Sky Bet, the sports betting division of TV conglomerate Sky, has posted a 20% year-on-year rise in gaming revenue to £32 million (€37.9 million/$51.9 million) for the three months until the end of September 2013. In an interim financial report for the first quarter of the new financial year, Sky Bet said that the figures had been achieved despite unfavorable results at the start of the 2013-14 football season. “Net revenue growth was 20% as the sports results weren’t favorable,” Sky Bet managing director Richard Flint told the Yorkshire Post newspaper. “We grew our user numbers by more than 20…