DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa casino yield turned upward in the last six months of 2010. The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission said in a year-end article that casino gate rose a lilliputian less than 1 percent in the model six months of 2010, compared with the unmodified span in 2009.
Casino operators had been watching in upset as the formal tallied revenue declines. The commission said in July that casino revenue declined 3.5 percent pro the monetary year ending June 30, to $1.3 billion, compared with $1.4 billion in requital for economic 2009.
It was the gold medal overall drop in Iowa casino returns in 17 years. The commission said the leave proper for pecuniary 2010 was a to the conciseness was attractive a ring on gamblers and casinos.