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We have had many discussions on this forum which end up being about casinos, casino operations, numbers of players, etc.... So I thought I do a little research. One of my questions dealt with how many states have now voted to allow casinos versus a few years ago. Alas, not Texas, but the facts were interesting.

In 2008 - 11 states allowed Commercial Casinos:
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Dakota

In 2012 - 22 states allowed Commercial Casinos
Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia

So in the move to "cash in" on the gambling pie, did the States and Corporate Hedge Funds dilute the per casino income?

*Source: American Gaming Association annual reports. Scanning the information in these reports is really interesting.

http://www.americangaming.org/sites/def ... 12_web.pdf

You missed Ohio at least. Will look at link tomorrow.

You also missed Wisconsin and Idaho California also.

Add Arkansas to the list also.

I thought the OP was about commercial, rather than tribal, casinos. Every state with a compact has tribal casinos, including Minnesota. Unless Wisconsin passed a new law since I last checked, it still doesn't allow non-tribal interests to operate casinos.

There's talk in Minnesota of allowing a Caesar's or something like it to run a casino, either at the Mall of America or downtown, but so far it's been just talk. And since the Mystic Lake folks did a deal with Canterbury Park, contributing purse money in exchange for the track backing off on its slot machine idea, there hasn't been much of even talk.

  Illinois has also added many new slot and video poker machines in restaurants across the state.

We have had many discussions on this forum which end up being about casinos, casino operations, numbers of players, etc.... So I thought I do a little research. One of my questions dealt with how many states have now voted to allow casinos versus a few years ago. Alas, not Texas, but the facts were interesting.

In 2008 - 11 states allowed Commercial Casinos:
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Dakota

In 2012 - 22 states allowed Commercial Casinos
Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia

So in the move to "cash in" on the gambling pie, did the States and Corporate Hedge Funds dilute the per casino income?

*Source: American Gaming Association annual reports. Scanning the information in these reports is really interesting.

http://www.americangaming.org/sites/def ... 12_web.pdf

States that allow tribal casinos need to be included in this discussion, not just states that allow commercial casinos. States with tribal casinos also "cash in on the gambling pie" and tribal casinos factor into the question as to whether the increased number of all US casinos "dilute the per casino income".

I believe CA is tribal only.

Well, I remember reading an article about 10 years ago that said, within the next decade, no one in the US will live more than 2 hours from a casino. With the proliferation of both tribal and commercial casinos, I think we are about there.

  I'm quite sure that residents of the State of Hawaii will disagree with you billyjoe. Even if we are talking about air miles vs. land mles.