Baton Rouge’s three riverboat casinos collectively won $22.9 million from gamblers in December—a 52% improvement over the same month a year earlier. However, much of that increase can be attributed to the fact that the city has one more casino than it did in December 2011. L’Auberge, which opened in September, won just shy of $11 million in December. The Belle of Baton Rouge and Hollywood Casino collectively won just over $15 million; but the Belle’s $4.9 million was down 6.2% from December 2011, and Hollywood’s $7.1 million was off 27.8%. Figures posted by regulators today show that, overall, December was a good month for the state’s casinos and 2012 was a good year. Louisiana’s state-licensed casinos won roughly $2.4 billion from gamblers in 2012, up from about $2.37 billion in 2011. The figures do not include revenue from Indian reservation casinos, which are not required to report winnings to the public.
L’Auberge’s $11M offsets lower winnings at Belle, Hollywood in December
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