By The Weekly Edge desk ·
Macau’s Q3 mass-market casino revenue, including slots, fell 5.2% annually to nearly MOP43.31bn, GGRAsia reported, citing government figures. The segment represented 71.9% of casino revenue, compared with 73.0% a year earlier. Slot revenue rose 18.8%.
Slot revenue grew while the wider mass-market total, which includes slots, declined.
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Slots grew within a declining mass-market aggregate, which also represented a smaller share of casino revenue.
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