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If you win big while gambling in Las Vegas or Reno, you do not get to keep every penny, alas. Gambling winnings are taxable, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants its share of your casino loot. The Bills have 95% percent of the money wagered on that game and the Ravens have 85% of the money at Houston. Jaguars receiving attention The most surprising betting trend at William Hill is the Jaguars getting 71% of the tickets bet and 85% of the cash for their game at Tennessee. How to read NFL Las Vegas Money Line Odds. In this example, the Cleveland Browns were listed as a 5.5-point favorite against the Tennessee Titans. Looking at this from a money-line standpoint, Cleveland is a -245 favorite to win the game straight-up, compared to Tennessee at +210 to win the contest. Cleveland -245 (Bet $100 to win $40.80). Below are the numbers that Las Vegas casinos made in revenue from sports betting in 2009: Overall. Total Amount Bet – $2.4 Billion Total Casino Win (revenue) – $136.3 Million Win Percentage (percent of money played that casino kept) – 5.31%. Total Amount Bet – $1.0 Billion Total Casino Win – $48.6 Million Win Percentage.

As a blogger, I have goals. One of them is to write data-driven posts. What better way to provide informative content to my readers?

Below is a table with the win percentage of slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip in 2013, as reported by the Nevada Gaming Commission. Slot Machine Wager Casino Win Percentage.

Statistics about gambling provide a perfect opportunity to write just this kind of post. I came up with the idea for this post a couple of days ago. A friend of mine (also a blogger) asked forfeedback on his latest post.

Here’s what I told him:

The first three paragraphs—your introduction—are boring. Much of what you’ve written is bland to the point of being meaningless. For example, one of your sentences is “gambling games are part ofour culture”.

Well, yeah. So what?

You want to include specific data about HOW those gambling games are woven into our culture. The best way to do this—especially in your introduction—is by sharing specific statistics and datapoints to catch your readers’ interest from the start.

Here’s an example:

King Richard outlawed dice among his soldiers in 1190. Cervantes was writing about blackjack as early as the early 17^th century. The word lottery is derived from the Biblical conceptof “casting lots”.

That’s a data-driven approach to explaining that gambling games are a part of our history.

Of course, that’s a little bit of a digression. You want to read a post with gambling statistics that you NEED. I offer 7 of these statistics below, along with some commentary and analysisrelated to each of them.

By John Grochowski

Maggie is a friend of a friend of my wife’s, someone I met at as holiday party when someone told her I was just the person she needed to talk to about slotmachines.
“Tell me how to win,” she said, and I laughed. That’s the most common request I get about slot machines, and it’s one I can’t fulfill. There’s nothing you can do to change the resultsdetermined by a machine’s random number generator.
“All right then. Tell me something. I was in a casino last week, and they had a sign up that said ‘Our slots pay back 93 percent.’ Does that mean every machine pays 93 percent?”
No, it doesn’t, I told her. Each casino has a wide range of payback percentages within its game mix. By and large, higher denominations givemore money back to players --- dollar machines pay more than quarters which pay more than nickels which pay more than pennies.
Even within the same denomination, there’s room for a range of paybacks. In a casino whose nickel games return 89 percent of money wagered to players, there’s likely to be games that pay inexcess of 90 percent, and games that pay 85 or 86 percent.
For that matter, it’s possible for games of the same denomination and theme to have different payback percentages. A quarter Red, White and Blue machine that returns 93 percent could sit rightnext to one that returns 89 percent. That’s not as common as it once was, but the game chips to make that possible are available to casinos.
“So if there are all those different paybacks, how can they say, ‘Our slots pay back 93 percent’? Where does that come from?”
That depends. Was it a plaque on a wall somewhere? Was it a sign over a particular bank of machines?
“It was on a wall, not really next to any particular games.”
OK, I’ve seen that in a few casinos, but not everywhere. It’s a casino-wide average. The total of all money won by the casino at all electronic gaming devices --- including video poker, videokeno and video blackjack as well as slot machines --- is divided by the total number of wagers at those games. Multiplied by 100, that gives us a casino hold percentage. Subtract that from 100,and you have the payback percentage to players.
For example, if $1 million is wagered on a casino’s electronic gaming devices, and the casino keeps $70,000, dividing that $70,000 by $1 million give you .07, which multiplied by 100 tells usthe casino kept 7 percent of all wagers. Subtract that from 100, and we find that 93 percent of money wagered has been returned to players. That’s the payback percentage.
“But not every machine is paying 93 percent?”
Right. Some payback percentages will be in the 80s. Some will be in the high 90s. Most will be in between. Most of the low-denomination slots will pay less than 93 percent. Most of thehigh-denomination games will pay more. But the casino-wide average in the casino where Maggie plays will come to 93 percent. Other casinos will have their own averages.
“I don’t suppose you could tell me how to tell which games have the better paybacks.”
I’m afraid not. Two slot machines that look identical on the outside can have different payback percentages.
She sighed.
“Oh well. Trial and error it is. At least keep your fingers crossed for a jackpot for me, will you?”
Will do.

Maggie was asking about a sign that listed a casino-wide average, but sometimes you’ll see a sign over a bank of machines that says, “95 percent payback,” or “Up to 98 percent payback.”
Such signs refer specifically to that bank of machines. If it’s specific, with no qualifiers, such as “95 percent payback,” most states require that all machines in the bank be programmed for95-percent return. There’s room for some short-term variation. If you sit down at a 95-percent machine and have a cold streak, running through a hundred bucks with zero return, there is norequirement that the next player get back 190 percent to even things out. Over time, with enough play, your cold streak will simply fade into statistical insignificance, overwhelmed by theresults of hundreds of thousands of reel spins.
Conversely, if you hit a big jackpot, there is no requirement that the machine then go ice cold to get down to the 95 percent target. The machine will keep operating as normal, and over timeyour jackpot will be overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of plays and fade into statistical insignificance.
When the sign does have a qualifier, such as “Up to 98 percent payback,” then let the player beware. At least one machine in the bank is likely to be a 98-percenter, but others can be lower.Not all states permit such fudging, and this ploy isn’t as common as it was a decade ago, but when you see it, be wary.

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John Grochowski writes a syndicated newspaper column on gambling,
and is author of the 'Casino Answer Book' series from Bonus Books.