NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Louisiana’s state-licensed casinos won about $232.2 million from gamblers last month – up $25 million from February and up $4.3 million from a year earlier.
Figures released Thursday by state regulators show Harrah’s land-based casino in New Orleans took in $31.6 million in March – down 11.7 percent from a year earlier and down about $136,700 from February.
Thirteen state-licensed riverboat casinos took in $161.3 million – up 15.5 percent from the previous month and 4.7 percent from March 2012.
Slot-machine casinos at four race tracks took in $39.2 million. That was 11.4 percent above February’s take and 3.2 percent above their revenue a year earlier.
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Online: http://lgcb.dps.louisiana.gov/revenue_reports.html
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