According to figures released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board, statewide casino revenue, or “win,” fell 9.32% in August of 2009 compared to August of 2008. The total gaming win reported was $847.0 million, representing the 20th straight month of decline. Read the Board’s August revenue report.

Last year, Nevada casino licensees hauled in a gaming win of $934.1 million. In Clark County, which includes the famed Las Vegas Strip, Downtown Las Vegas, Laughlin, Boulder, and Mesquite, gaming win in August was $708.1 million, down 6.73% year over year. On the Strip, which includes a bevy of poker-friendly gaming establishments like the Bellagio and Venetian, revenues were $449.5 million in August, off 9.00% from the same period in 2008. In Downtown Las Vegas, which includes the Golden Nugget, home of GSN’s “High Stakes Poker” and NBC’s “Face the Ace,” revenues were $41.9 million. That total represented a decline of 3.87% year over year.

The news wasn’t so grim in North Las Vegas or the Boulder Strip, where revenues were up in August of 2009 in comparison to August of 2008. In the former, gaming win came in at $22.1 million, up 21.93% year over year. In Boulder, a similar increase occurred, as revenues of $63.4 million represented a 21.53% rise over the $52.2 million posted last August. North Las Vegas and the Boulder Strip were the only two locales to post revenue gains year over year. In Laughlin, revenues sank 13.85% in August to $38.1 million, while Mesquite saw its gaming win tumble 21.59% to $8.5 million.

In Washoe County, which includes Reno, Sparks, and North Lake Tahoe, combined casino revenues were $73.9 million in August, a drop of 20.95% compared to the $93.4 million posted last year. In “The Biggest Little City in the World,” residents saw the influx of money from casino gamblers dive 21.19% in August to $53.6 million. In Sparks, revenues sank 19.66% to $11.5 million. Meanwhile, North Lake Tahoe casinos suffered a similar fate, as revenues of $3.4 million two months ago represented a 24.69% dip year over year. In South Lake Tahoe, revenues plummeted 28.92% in August from $30.9 million in 2008 to $21.9 million in 2009.

In Elko County, gaming win in August totaled $22.2 million, a sum that meant a fall of 14.98% year over year. In Wendover, revenues dipped 17.61% to $13.4 million in August. Rounding out the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s report was the Carson Valley Area, which includes Carson City, Gardnerville, Minden, and all other areas of Douglas County except South Lake Tahoe. That location saw its revenue slide 17.12% in August to $8.7 million.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board also reported fee collection figures for the month of September that are derived from revenues accrued by casinos in August. In September, the State raked in $49.6 million in fees, which equated to a slide of 9.03% year over year. Last September, the month before the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted from 10,800 to 8,400, fee collections totaled $54.6 million.

August marked the 20th straight month of casino gaming win in Nevada decreasing year over year. The last month that casinos posted a rise in revenue from one year to the next was December of 2007. Here are the results since then:

August, 2009: (9.32%)
July, 2009: (12.48%)
June, 2009: (13.82%)
May, 2009: (8.34%)
April, 2009: (14.07%)
March, 2009: (11.61%)
February, 2009: (18.12%)
January, 2009: (14.62%)
December, 2008: (18.94%)
November, 2008: (14.80%)
October, 2008: (22.33%)
September, 2008: (5.44%)
August, 2008: (8.10%)
July, 2008: (12.97%)
June, 2008: (1.11%)
May, 2008: (15.17%)
April, 2008: (5.05%)
March, 2008: (1.52%)
February, 2008: (3.93%)
January, 2008: (4.75%)

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