2018 Super Bowl<\/a>. A 30-second commercial is expected to cost a record $5.2 million.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhether it’s the length of the games, ongoing kneeling protests during the national anthem, or some other cause, the decline in viewership hasn’t necessarily translated to a decline in betting activity at Nevada sportsbooks.<\/p>\n
“A lot of people are complaining about these games,” Westgate SuperBook VP of Sports Jay Kornegay told ESPN <\/i>this week. “Well, it hasn’t slowed them down at the betting windows. We had a nice, sizeable increase year over year.”<\/p>\n
The SuperBook has the Patriots favored by four points for this Sunday’s Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
Casino Earnings Fall<\/b><\/h2>\n
The Nevada Gaming Control Board’s December report shows that casinos statewide were flat during the final month of 2017, with total gaming win totaling $960.3 million, up 0.44 percent.<\/p>\n
But on the Strip, gaming revenue fell 3.25 percent to $571.5 million. December marked the Strip’s third consecutive monthly decline in the wake of the October 1 mass shooting.<\/p>\n
Between October 1 and December 31, total gaming win fell more than five percent on the Strip. For the entire year, Las Vegas’ main drag saw revenues climb 1.3 percent to $6.46 billion.<\/p>\n
Downtown Las Vegas capped off a wildly successful year with a 10 percent gain in December. For 2017, the downtown region saw total gaming win jump nearly 12 percent to $631.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nevada sportsbooks enter 2018 fresh off their best year in state history. Final 2017 numbers issued by the Nevada Gaming Control Board this week show that sportsbooks took in a record $4.8 billion in bets, and won $248.77 million on the wagers. Both numbers represent all-time highs. The previous best was set in 2015 when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":68770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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