Nevada casinos reported a 2.1% increase in gaming win in July from a year earlier, driven by stronger results on the Las Vegas Strip, where table-game activity and baccarat volumes rose sharply.
The state’s nonrestricted gaming licensees, covering 453 large casinos, generated $1.38 billion in gaming win during the month, compared with $1.36 billion in July 2025, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Clark County, home to the Las Vegas Strip, generated $1.17 billion in gaming win, up 1.5% from a year earlier and accounting for 84.5% of the state’s total.
Gaming win on the Las Vegas Strip rose 3.6% to $776.3 million, while downtown Las Vegas declined 8.6% to $68.5 million. The Boulder Strip fell 2.5% to $82.7 million, while North Las Vegas rose 3.4% to $25.5 million.
Laughlin was broadly flat at $41.0 million, up 0.1%, while Mesquite slipped 0.5% to $15.1 million.
Gaming win in the balance of Clark County fell 1.2% to $164.0 million.
Daniel Politzer, an analyst at J.P. Morgan, attributed the Strip’s stronger performance partly to increased table-game activity and a busy entertainment calendar.
“Slot handle was up 4.8 percent year over year (reaccelerating from June’s 1 percent), while table drop was up by an impressive 24 percent year over year, reflecting baccarat volumes up 43 percent year over year,” Politzer wrote in a note to investors.
“We note July table drop was the highest of 2026, likely driven by a strong entertainment calendar; historically, July was among the seasonally softest months for table drop,” he wrote.
Elsewhere, Washoe County gaming win rose 2.9% to $105.77 million. Reno edged up 1.0% to $76.88 million, while Sparks gained 9.45% to $17.17 million and the balance of Washoe County increased 11.8% to $8.78 million.
South Lake Tahoe gaming win rose 5.1% to $39.6 million, while North Lake Tahoe declined 5.67% to $2.9 million. Elko County markets also posted some of the state’s strongest gains, including increases of 15.1% in Wendover and 13.4% in Elko.
The casino results came as Las Vegas visitation rose 2.7% to 3.2 million visitors in July, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). Convention attendance, however, fell 5.6% to 262,700, partly due to normal event rotation patterns.
Hotel occupancy increased 1.1 percentage points to 77.2%, while the average daily room rate rose 1.8% to $157.45. Passenger traffic at Harry Reid International Airport fell 7.6% to 4.4 million.
Nevada collected $98.5 million in percentage fees during August based on July taxable gaming revenues, up 3.4%, or $3.27 million, from a year earlier. The state has collected $184.2 million in gaming tax receipts so far in the fiscal year, up 0.7% year-on-year.
Original article: https://www.yogonet.com/international/news/2026/08/28/126125-nevada-casino-gaming-win-rises-21-in-july-as-baccarat-fuels-las-vegas-strip-growth
