- Nevada casinos won $43.4 million on craps tables in July, up 6.6% from a year earlier.
- The statewide craps hold reached 16.6% for the month, above the game’s trailing three-month and twelve-month averages.
- Las Vegas Strip casinos took in $31.7 million on craps, a 10.5% jump that beat the Strip’s overall table-game gain.
- Twelve-month craps win reached $469.2 million, up 6.7%, reversing the 9% slide reported late last year.
LAS VEGAS – Nevada’s casinos won $43.4 million on craps tables in July, a 6.6% increase from a year earlier that outpaced the state’s overall table-game growth, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s newly posted monthly revenue report.
Statewide Win Outpaces The Floor
Craps’ 6.6% gain beat both of the numbers surrounding it. Ninety-one Nevada casinos spread the game in July. Statewide, total win across every table, counter and card game reached $443.1 million, up 5.4%, while total gaming win – slots, tables and books combined – hit $1.39 billion, up 2.1%.
Craps grew faster than both. Blackjack’s own win jumped 27.4% the same month, the floor’s biggest gainer, on the strength of a 38.8% surge at Las Vegas Strip tables.
The House Hold Ran Above Trend
The state’s “win percent” figure for craps, casino win measured against the chips players bought at the tables, hit 16.6% in July. That is above both the trailing three-month average of 16.1% and the trailing twelve-month average of 16.3% for the same game.
Craps’ own math has not changed: the pass line and the free odds bet behind it remain close to true odds and cost a player very little to play correctly, while the field, hardways and one-roll propositions carry edges many times steeper. A single month’s hold moves with luck as well as bet mix, but a figure above trend is consistent with more of July’s money cycling through those harder-edged bets – the parts of the layout built to cost the most.
Clark County And The Strip Led The Gain
The increase was not spread evenly. Las Vegas Strip casinos won $31.7 million on craps, up 10.5%, at a 17.3% hold. Clark County as a whole, which includes the Strip, won $40.3 million, up 10.1%, at a 17.4% hold – both running hotter than the statewide figure.
Downtown Las Vegas posted the sharpest jump, craps win up 24.7% to $2.5 million, but at a 15.0% hold, lower than the Strip’s. A lower hold generally points to a bet mix leaning harder on the pass line and odds than on the propositions, though a single month’s figure also moves with plain luck.
A Reversal From The Year Before
Over the trailing twelve months, Nevada casinos won $469.2 million on craps, up 6.7% from the prior year. That is a reversal: in December, a report on Nevada craps revenue showed the state’s trailing twelve-month craps win down 9% from the year before, a slide that Nevada’s legal craps market has now fully erased.
The Gaming Control Board publishes the next monthly figures, covering August, on its regular monthly cycle.