The question asks for a dollar figure that no public reporting system produces: how much Las Vegas makes in a year specifically from penny slots. The city's documented position sits at 36.16916667, -115.14055556, and the nearest documented venue, The D Las Vegas, is 0.1 miles away straight-line. Road distance is always longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.
What exists instead is a reporting structure. Regulators publish revenue by game category and by geographic reporting area, not by the denomination printed on a machine. A penny slot is a marketing label for a machine whose minimum credit value is one cent, but the actual wager per spin is almost always a multiple of that credit across many paylines, so the machine's revenue cannot be isolated by the word "penny."
Why "penny slot revenue" is not a line item
Slot machines report their total coin-in and win to the gaming authority through a central accounting system. The authority aggregates that data by licensee, by reporting area, and by broad game type. The denomination of the smallest credit on the machine is not a field that separates one revenue stream from another in the published totals.
A single machine can be configured so that a player wagers 30, 50, or more credits per spin. The machine's hold is recorded against the total amount wagered, not against the one-cent credit value. That makes any attempt to sum "penny slot revenue" a calculation that would require per-machine configuration data that is not part of the public release.
What the published figures show
Nevada's gaming revenue reports are organized by reporting area, such as the Las Vegas Strip, Downtown Las Vegas, and other defined zones. Within each area, revenue is broken out by game category, with slots reported as a group. The reports show total slot win, total table game win, and total win, but not a denomination-level split.
The reader who wants the current annual figure should go to the Nevada Gaming Control Board's published revenue reports. Those reports are released monthly and annually, and they are the authoritative source for what Las Vegas-area licensees report as slot revenue in aggregate.
Documented venues near the Las Vegas reference point
Because the query names Las Vegas as a place, the article can position the city against the venues documented in the reference set. The table below lists the documented straight-line distances from the Las Vegas coordinate to the nearest documented venues. Every figure is a great-circle measurement, not a road distance.
| Reference point | Straight-line miles | Measurement type |
|---|---|---|
| The D Las Vegas | 0.1 | great-circle |
| Four Queens | 0.2 | great-circle |
| Horseshoe | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Golden Nugget Las Vegas | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Binion's | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Golden Gate | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Main Street | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Main Street Station | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Stratosphere Tower | 1.7 | great-circle |
| Jerry's Nugget | 1.7 | great-circle |
These figures describe how the venues sit relative to the Las Vegas coordinate in a straight line. They do not describe how a person drives between any two of them, and they do not describe any route.
Why straight-line distance differs from an actual trip
A great-circle distance is the shortest path across the surface of the earth between two coordinate pairs. An actual road trip follows a network of streets, highways, and interchanges that rarely matches that line. In a dense urban grid like downtown Las Vegas, a straight-line distance of a fraction of a mile can involve multiple turns, one-way streets, and pedestrian-only sections.
Terrain and water bodies add further divergence. Las Vegas sits in a valley, and the road network follows the basin's floor. Where a straight line crosses a block, a road may have to go around it. Where a pedestrian mall such as the Fremont Street Experience closes a street to vehicles, the driving path becomes longer still. None of that is captured in a great-circle figure.
How the venue's position relates to the city and state
The Las Vegas coordinate places the city in Clark County, in the southern part of Nevada. The documented venues in the table sit within a small cluster around that coordinate, consistent with the downtown area's compact footprint. The coordinate itself does not support any claim about which venue is more central or more convenient; it only supports relative position.
Nevada's border with California lies to the west and southwest of the Las Vegas coordinate, and Arizona lies to the east and southeast. Those directional statements follow from the coordinate's position in the southern tip of the state, but this article does not measure distances to those borders because no such pairs are documented here.
What to confirm before you go
If the reader's actual purpose is to visit a specific Las Vegas venue, the changeable items are the ones this article cannot state: current operating hours, any entry or parking policy, and what games are on the floor. The authoritative channel for each of those is the venue's own published guest information page or its guest services desk.
For revenue figures, the authoritative channel is the Nevada Gaming Control Board's published monthly and annual revenue reports. Those reports name the reporting areas and the game categories, and they are the only source that can answer "how much" with a current, regulator-published number. This article does not reproduce those figures because they change with every reporting period.
FAQ
Why can't I find a published figure for penny slot revenue?
Regulators publish slot revenue as a single category per reporting area, not split by machine denomination. A penny slot's actual wager per spin is a multiple of the one-cent credit across paylines, so the machine's revenue is recorded against total coin-in, not against the denomination label. No public report isolates penny-denominated machines.
Does the distance table tell me how far apart the casinos are from each other?
No. The table shows the straight-line distance from the Las Vegas coordinate to each named venue, not venue-to-venue distances. Road distance is always longer than any straight-line figure, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time for any pair.
Where do I get the current annual slot revenue for Las Vegas?
The Nevada Gaming Control Board publishes monthly and annual revenue reports by reporting area and game category. Those reports are the authoritative source for current figures. This article does not reproduce them because the numbers change with each reporting period and are not part of the documented reference set.
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