Electronic or virtual table games at the Resorts World Aqueduct racino in Queens are vastly outperforming live table games at top casinos in Atlantic City, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Aqueduct’s electronic games generate $3,943 in “net win” casino revenues per table per day.
Live table games at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut grab $2,831 per table per day, and those at the Borgata in Atlantic City haul in $2,774.
The Sands in Pennsylvania yields $2,861, and the Horseshoe casino in Ohio rakes in $2,293.
“The demand for electronic table games has been so consistently strong that we have more than doubled the number of baccarat, craps, sic-bo and roulette stations since December 2011,” said Resorts World spokesman Stefan Friedman.
Alain Woinski, president of Gaming USA Corp., said one reason Aqueduct’s virtual games are outpacing the live ones is that the Queens racino has a large number of Asian customers.
That well-heeled demographic has historically been known to flock toward virtual games.
“I don’t want to say that they could put carnival games in there,” Woinski said, “[but] they could add even more games and do even better.”