Missouri Casino Revenue Rises 4.8% as Tables Outgrow Slots

• Missouri’s 13 casinos won $172.9 million in October, up 4.8% from $164.9 million, with slots up 4.2% and tables up 9.1%.
• Casinos kept a larger share of wagers, which supplied about $4.3 million of the $8.0 million gain.
• Tables are still 2.9% below last year through four months, while slots are up 3.9% and total revenue is up 2.9%.
• Education received $32.67 million in gaming proceeds, up 4.8%, and its total since inception is $8.91 billion.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri casino revenue rose 4.8% to $172.9 million in October 2026 across the state’s 13 casinos, with table games up 9.1% and slots up 4.2%, according to the Missouri Gaming Commission. It was the second straight month of growth near 5%, after a 5.5% gain in September and a summer in which July and August together grew less than 1%.

Casinos Kept More Of Each Wager, Worth About Half The Gain

The commission’s figures cover the 13 licensed casinos at the center of Missouri’s legal gambling market. Adjusted gross revenue, the amount they keep after paying winning bets, totaled $172,862,051 against $164,866,955 in October 2025, and the commission says all values are subject to change.

Slots produced 86.5% of the total, winning $149.56 million on $1.51 billion in wagers, the commission’s detail report shows. The casinos’ hold, the share of wagers they keep, was 9.9%, nearly a dime of every dollar played.

The commission’s market analysis puts that hold 2.0% above last October’s rate, which works out to a payout of about 90.3% a year earlier against the 90.1% the detail report lists for this October. Two-tenths of a point across $1.51 billion is roughly $2.9 million, close to half of the $6.07 million slot gain.

Tables won $23.30 million on $113.8 million of drop, the cash and credit players exchanged for chips. That is a 20.5% win percentage, 6.0% above last October’s rate. Win percentage is measured against drop rather than against each bet, so it runs far above the house edge on any single game. The same chips are wagered many times.

Working back from those rate changes, wagering rose about 2% on slots and about 3% at tables. At last October’s rates, revenue would have grown about 2.3% instead of 4.8%, so roughly $4.3 million of the $8.0 million gain came from the share the casinos kept and the rest from more money wagered.

Tables Rebounded From A Weak Summer, But Slots Supplied 76% Of The Gain

Table revenue rose 9.1% to $23.30 million after falling 17.7% in August and 6.5% in September, according to the commission’s earlier market analyses. The swing tracks win percentage, which was 17.7% in August, 19.2% in September and 20.5% in October.

Tables are 13.5% of the total and supplied $1.94 million of the gain, while slots supplied $6.07 million. The table gain was also uneven. Kansas City’s table win rose 35.6% to $9.29 million, while St. Louis’ fell 5.5% to $12.06 million. Ohio showed a similar split between revenue and play in September, when Ohio casino table revenue rose 14.7% on a 2.9% increase in drop.

Through four months of the fiscal year, tables have won $89.13 million, down 2.9%, while slots have won $596.93 million, up 3.9%, according to the detail report.

Win Per Patron Rose 3.0% As Patron Growth Slowed

Casinos won $144.27 per patron, up 3.0%, across 1.2 million patrons, up 1.8%, the commission’s market analysis shows. Admissions rose 1.0% to 2.34 million.

In September, patrons and win per patron each rose 2.7%, according to the commission’s September analysis. More of October’s gain therefore came from what each patron produced and less from how many patrons came.

Education Received $32.67 Million Of $36.3 Million In Proceeds

Gaming proceeds to education totaled $32,670,927.67 in October, up 4.8%, and proceeds to local governments totaled $3,630,103.08, also up 4.8%. Together they equal 21% of revenue, with 18.9% going to education and 2.1% to local governments.

Through four months, revenue totals $686.06 million against $666.57 million a year earlier, up 2.9%. Education’s share of the fiscal-year proceeds is $129.66 million and local governments’ is $14.41 million, and education’s total since inception stands at $8.91 billion.