“Not a single commercial casino in the United States currently generates that level of gross gaming revenue,” Barrow's report says. Assuming the third Connecticut casino gets built - and few consider that a slam dunk - a fourth, competitively bid casino would have to generate nearly $1.1 billion in annual gross gaming revenues to offset what the state would lose when the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes stop sharing their casinos' slot-machine revenues, a new report concludes.Īnd the probability of a Bridgeport casino pulling in that kind of cash “is almost zero,” says the report's author, Clyde Barrow, a much-quoted expert on Northeast gaming and a consultant to the tribes.
