{"id":19665,"date":"2017-04-26T07:14:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=19665"},"modified":"2017-04-26T07:14:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:14:37","slug":"baccarat-bonanza-on-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/baccarat-bonanza-on-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Baccarat bonanza on Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being clocked at baccarat, <strong>Las Vegas Strip<\/strong> casinos took in 8% more last month, a jump <strong>Wall Street<\/strong> is attributing to the Easter holiday and the much-anticipated <strong>Con-Agg<\/strong> expo. Baccarat play was 6% down and casinos won 16% less. Slot revenue, however, was 11% up on slightly higher coin-in. The house also defied the odds at non-baccarat table games, winning 13.5% more against 5.5% less wagering.<\/p>\n<p>Locals play was not so strong, with the <strong>Boulder Strip<\/strong> 8.5% down and <!--more--><strong>North Las Vegas<\/strong> off 1.5%. <strong>Downtown<\/strong> vaulted 22.5%, though, and outlying <strong>Clark County<\/strong> casinos grossed 14% more. <strong>Laughlin<\/strong> was 4%, <strong>Reno<\/strong> gained 8% but <strong>Lake Tahoe<\/strong> was 2% off. And people were jonesing for some casino play in <strong>Elko<\/strong>, up 13%. Con-Agg won&#8217;t come around again for three years, so enjoy the largesse\u00a0while it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being clocked at baccarat, Las Vegas Strip casinos took in 8% more last month, a jump Wall Street is attributing to the Easter holiday and the much-anticipated Con-Agg expo. Baccarat play was 6% down and casinos won 16% less. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/baccarat-bonanza-on-strip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,51,76,49,126,78,79,9,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19666,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions\/19666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}