Upturn at Mississippi aggregated gross gaming revenues for April

Aggregated gross gaming revenues in Mississippi allegedly increased by 5% last month to reach $184 million due in large part to record April takings from the southern state’s twelve gambling venues located across the Gulf of Mexico shore.

According to a Saturday report from the neighborhood Sun Herald newspaper citing official statistics from the Mississippi Department of Revenue, the 1 dozen beachfront agencies in Harrison County and Hancock County, which include Biloxi’s Palace Casino Resort along with the Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort in nearby D’Iberville, saw their combined April gaming earnings rise by 9% year-on-year to reach $108.6 million.

The newspaper reported that the coastal figure for a month was also 1.3% higher when compared to the previous record of $107.2 million, that had been set in April of 2007 as thousands of contractors and volunteers visited the region to aid with cleanup efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and finally helped to push takings for annually to over $1.3 billion.

But, the information was allegedly not great state-wide as Mississippi’s northern riverboat casinos, which include the Ameristar Vicksburg in addition to the neighboring Riverwalk Casino Hotel, saw their aggregated gross gaming revenues for April autumn by 0.9% year-on-year to $74.8 million.

Eventually, the Sun Herald reported that Mississippi is moving quickly in the wake of a week’s United States Supreme Court judgment that invalidated the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) and published its own proposed sportsbetting regulations on Wednesday. The newspaper predicted that the state’s twelve coastal casinos could now start accepting sports wagers the moment mid-July when the suggested rules are speedily approved by the Mississippi Gaming Commission.