Q:
How much do you budget as your gambling bankroll on an average trip to Las Vegas?
A:
2513 Total Votes
| $1,000 - $2,000 |
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| $500 - $1,000 |
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| $2,000 - $5,000 |
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| $250 - $500 |
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| More than $5,000 |
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| $100 - $250 |
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| $50 - $100 |
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| Less than $50 |
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| Zero -- I don’t gamble |
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Analysis
Certainly our poll was structured and administered differently than Las Vegas’ official Visitor Profile Study (with 3,600 respondents), but some reasonable comparisons can be made. While our poll wasn’t structured to pinpoint an average, we’re able to rough one out and it comes to about $1,750 per person. That’s a lot of coin, especially when you consider that the VPS pegs the overall Las Vegas average at about $650. But guess what? We’re not surprised. In fact, our result was about what we would have predicted, since just about every such study we’ve ever done has put the gambling bankrolls of LVAers at about three times the Visitor Profile average. And why wouldn’t it be? LasVegasAdvisor.com was made and molded for those who are most into this activity—of course they back up their study with play. Heck, even our most populated category, $1,000-$2,000 is better than double the VPS average.
And one more comparison is interesting. Whereas 13% of those polled in the VPS did not gamble, only 1% of our respondents did not. There’s little doubt that many who do not partake simply didn’t vote, but we’d wager that total falls far short of 13%.
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