New Chilean casinos had winnings of us$ 220 million in 2009

Besides, the 15 city councils and 10 regional governments have to receive a total of us$ 36.68 million in specific gaming tax and the state us$ 19.08 million in income tax. Operating societies also generated us$ 35.09 million in VAT gaming concept.

In 2009, gross gaming incomes registered a growing rate of 149.5 %, because, in January, the win was of us$ 9.94 million and, in December, of us$ 24.8 million. It is explained by the number of casinos operating increased from 8 to 15 during the year, and, therefore, it grew in the number of visits in 50.7% -in January casinos received 265,225 visitors and 399,812 in December. The average expense per visit also had a favourable growing rate of 33.07 %, from us$ 45 in January to us$ 59 in the last month of the year.

Leiva pointed that "comparing the operational results of 2009 with the previous year, it is shown that the new casino industry is in a process of sustained growth, because the average of visits per day and the average expense for each of them show a growing rate of 53.7% and 20%, respectively”. While in 2008 it registered an average of 564.4 visits per day, in 2009 the number of visits grew to 867.5. Besides, each of them spent an average of us$ 47) in 2008 and us$ 57 last year.

Of the total of the us$ 219.81 million gross gaming income or win, Monticello Grand Casino represented the 35.30 % (us$ 77.60 million), Marina del Sol the 13.43 % (us$ 29.53 million), Enjoy Antofagasta 12.62 % (us$ 27.73 million), Dreams Temuco 8.07 % (us$ 17.74 million), Dreams Punta Arenas 6.13 % (us$ 13.47 millones), Antay Casino & Hotel  4.64 % (us$ 10.19 million), Dreams Valdivia 4.35 % (us$ 9.56 million), Gran Casino de Talca 3.46 % (us$ 7.61 million), Casino Sol Calama 3.26 % (us$ 7.17 million), Casino Sol Osorno 2.99 % (us$ 6.57 million), Casino de Colchagua 2.25 % (us$ 4.95 million), Casino Gran Los Ángeles 1.65 % (us$ 3.62 million), Casino de Juegos del Pacífico 0.88 % (us$ 1.93 million), Casino de Juego de Rinconada 0.51 % (us$ 11 million) and Termas de Chillán 0.46 % (us$ 1.02 million).

Complying with the norm established by SCJ for games of chance to grant prizes no less than 85% of the amount bet in the total of possible combinations of plays, 6,779 slots operating had an average of 93.2 % in return in prizes to players. While the total amount bet increased to us$ 2,441.89 million, the gaming machines win for the 15 new casinos was of us$ 164.84 million, which means that the jackpots won by players were of us$ 2,277.05 million.

Results of the industry during 2009 were released after the Superintendence validated the new monthly report of operations of each casino, corresponding to December, a month in which a total of us$ 24.80 million was generated in gross gaming incomes, us$ 4.14 million in specific tax gaming, us$ 3.96 million in VAT concept and us$ 2.06 million in income tax. Besides, casinos received in December a total of 399,812 visits, which spent an average of us$ 59.