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What Happened To Atlantic City’S Gaming Volume?, Toni Repetti, Soyeon Jung
What Happened To Atlantic City’S Gaming Volume?, Toni Repetti, Soyeon Jung
UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal
Atlantic City casinos were hit by the 2007-2009 recession and the addition of legalized gaming in Pennsylvania at about the same time. Results of this study show the opening of the first three Pennsylvania casinos significantly decreased slot coin-in in Atlantic City while the legalization of table games and the opening of the fourth casino significantly decreased table games drop. After taking this into account, the recession had no significant effect on Atlantic City casino volume. To counteract decreased volumes, casino management needs to understand how much gaming volume they are losing to competition and how much to the recession.