A year-on-year growth of 48.2 %

Macau’s VIP baccarat revenue continues growing faster than overall casino industry

2011-10-19
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(Macau).- Macau’s VIP baccarat revenue rose 52 % year-on-year in the third quarter of 2011 to a record us$ 6.47 billion.VIP baccarat accounted for 73.7 % of all casino gross gaming revenue in that period, according to official data from the gaming bureau disclosed this week.

VIP baccarat grew faster than the overall casino industry in Macau: the city’s casino gross gaming revenue reached us$ 8.63 billion in the third quarter of 2011, a year-on-year growth of 48.2 percent.

Mass-market baccarat revenue rose 42.5 percent year-on-year, to us$ 1.55 billion. Revenue from slot machines rose 26.7 percent to us$ 347.9 million in the same period.

Macau’s 15,900 slots accounted for a share of 4 percent of the total casino gross gaming revenue in the period from July to September.

At the end of the period, Macau had a total of 5,379 gaming tables, only 121 tables short of the government’s 5,500 table-cap that will expire in 2013.

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