Commercial Casinos
Commercial casinos are founded and run by private companies on non-Indian land. There are 20 states (and two US Territories) that allow commercial casinos in some form: Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, U.S. Virgin Islands, Washington, and West Virginia.
The approximately 450 commercial casinos in total produced a gross gaming revenue of $34.11 billion in 2006.
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