Poker rooms around the state of Nevada won $8.44 million from cash game players during September, in step with figures from the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

The amount was a 1.5-percent increase year-over-year. There have been 65 poker rooms with a combined 606 tables during September 2016.

Strip area poker rooms had $5.2 million of the statewide total, which was a 0.2-percent increase in comparison to September 2015. There have been 20 poker rooms in or across the main casino corridor, with a combined 280 tables.

In the 365 DAYS previous to Oct. 1, the Nevada poker industry raked $117.8 million, which was a decline of 0.3 percent from the similar period a year prior.

Here’s a glance at Nevada’s poker revenue to this point in 2016:

January: $9.5 million (2.85-percent decrease)
February: $8.98 million (5.44-percent increase)
March: $9.68 million (0.01-percent decrease)
April: $8.57 million (0.86-percent increase)
May: $8.88 million (13.92-percent decrease)
June: $16.14 million (1.88-percent increase)
July: $12.33 million (7.63-percent increase)
August: $8.24 million (3.23-percent decrease)
September: $8.44 million (1.47-percent increase)

The poker rooms raked a bit of over $118 million in 2015, which was a 1.57-percent decline in comparison to 2014’s $119.9 million. Poker revenue was $123.9 million in 2013.

The all-time high for Nevada poker was just below $168 million in 2007.

Online poker revenue is included in Nevada’s poker revenue figure, however the state doesn’t provide a breakdown between live and internet play.

Here’s a comparison between the industrial poker markets in other casino-heavy states:

New Jersey: $5.28 million
Pennsylvania: $4.5 million
Maryland: $2.7 million

(Revenues from September)

Read More... [Source: CardPlayer Poker News]