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AC casino win hit record $4.1 billion in ‘99

Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000 | 11:38 a.m.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTIC CITY -- Gamblers lost $4.1 billion in the city's casinos last year, the highest total in the 21-year history of legalized gambling in New Jersey, officials said Wednesday.

The 12 casinos won $2.9 billion on slot machines and $1.2 billion from table games, an overall increase of 3.3 percent over 1998, the state Casino Control Commission reported.

All but two casinos -- Resorts Atlantic City and Trump Plaza -- won more from gamblers in 1999 than they did in 1998.

Trump Plaza's poor showing, down 5.5 percent from 1998, was due in part to the October closing of Trump World's Fair Casino, which is scheduled to be demolished. Trump World's Fair's revenues were always counted as part of those of Trump Plaza because they shared one casino license. The properties, which sat on either side of Convention Hall, were linked through a pedestrian walkway.

The previous annual record take by the casinos was $4 billion, set in 1998.

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