Station Casinos Double Digit Growth But Mum on Internet Poker Impact

Written by :

Aaron Goldstein

Published on :

7 August, 2013

Station Casinos has announced double-digit growth during the 2^nd quarter with a profit increase of 11 percent.

What Station Casinos did not disclose is the impact online poker has had on those numbers.

Station Casinos was the first – and to date, the only – legalized Internet poker site to launch in the United States for real money. It currently operates exclusively in the state of Nevada and does not accept players from outside the Silver State’s borders.

Total revenues were $316.6 million, an increase of 1.4 percent.

Station Casinos is not publicly traded but has publicly owned debt.

-Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com

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