Nevada casinos collected $1.427 billion in gaming win in March 2026, up 11.8% year-over-year and the fifth-best month on record, with the Las Vegas Strip up 14.4% and statewide Baccarat win more than doubling, according to data released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The total came in just under the all-time monthly record of $1.433 billion set in December 2023.

The Strip alone produced $780 million in win, with Downtown Las Vegas up 20.8% to $103.1 million. The state’s slot win, $969.8 million, was the second-highest monthly slot total ever recorded by Nevada operators.

Strip Drives the Headline

The headline driver was a confluence of large events: ConExpo-Con/Agg, the triennial construction-equipment trade show that brought more than 140,000 attendees through the city; the NCAA March Madness tournament; and the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 14-15. The same weekend pattern that built Las Vegas into a year-round events economy is now the floor under the gaming numbers, not the ceiling.

Las Vegas has struggled in recent years, with tourism footfall and strip gambling profits falling. So this is a rare piece of good news that shows Sin City can still bring in the crowds. Online casinos are still a growing threat, but the pull of Vegas still has its own magic that can work in combination with big events.

Statewide table and card games produced $457.1 million, up 27.9% year-over-year. The standout inside that segment was Baccarat, which jumped 105.13% to $154.1 million. A doubling of Baccarat win in a single month signals a strong return of the international VIP segment that Las Vegas had lost during the pandemic and had been slow to rebuild.

Sportsbooks Run Hot

Nevada sportsbook win came in at $46 million, up 107% year-over-year. The figure is partially flattered by an easier comparable in March 2025, but it also reflects the extent to which March Madness still anchors the Nevada sports-betting calendar, even as 38 other states have legalised the product. Nevada operators have leaned into the same brand-name VIP and high-roller economics for sports betting that the Strip’s table-game floors have always run on.

Shelley Newell, senior economic analyst at the Gaming Control Board, noted in the release that “gaming win exceeded $1 billion for the 61st straight month,” extending a streak that began in March 2021 as Nevada casinos reopened from the pandemic shutdown. The five-year run is a structural number, not a cyclical one, and it has held through interest-rate increases, recession fears, and the steady migration of US discretionary entertainment spend into regulated online casinos in other states.

The March figures put Nevada on track for a record fiscal year if the second-quarter calendar runs anywhere close to the first. The April calendar leans on regional convention and weekend visitation rather than tentpole events, which historically softens the headline. The Strip’s table-game floors and the international VIP segment will set the tone for whether March was the peak or the inflection point.