January’s unaudited VIP gambling rolling chip volume rose 147 per cent year-on-year to an all-time monthly high at Imperial Pacific’s temporary casino on the Pacific island of Saipan.
Such volume amounted to nearly US$5.59bn, according to a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange last week. In January 2016, VIP rolling chip volume at the Saipan venue - called Best Sunshine Live - was US$2.26bn.
It took the Venetian Macao, a flagship property of casino operator Sands China in the Macau casino market, the whole of the fourth quarter to record US$6.89bn in rolling chip turnover.
