Kansas City Slot Machines Still Going, and Going…

People said that the riverboat slot machines would never make it to $600 million, and if they did, they wouldn’t survive there. They were wrong on both counts because not only did their slot machine riverboats bring in $714.6 million last year; they are expected to surpass that number this year.

They chalk it up to all the things that they have to offer besides the slot machines and gaming. They say that they are bringing in entertainment venues and other options for people, so that when they are done playing the slot machines they won’t leave, they will stay for a show, or something else that catches their eye, and then perhaps, they will play some more slot machines. They say it is all in the packaging.

For the 12th year in a row, the slot machine and gambling revenue in Kansas City has continued to beat the year before in revenue. They found that their slot machine riverboat revenue was up 3.7% from the year before. The revenue at all eleven slot machine casinos in Missouri were up 3.8% - which means $1.58 billion in pretax gross revenue. The majority of the slot machine revenue goes to public education – which means really, everybody wins.

However, with all of this growth in slot machine and gambling revenue, there has to be someone paying for it, and it seems that Missouri showed more than 11,000 people as addicts. More than 1,500 last year alone voluntarily banned themselves from the slot machines because they just couldn’t stop gambling.

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