- Louisiana video poker machines won $68.8 million in July, up 6.9% from July 2025.
- Truck stops won $50 million of the total, more than the other four location types combined.
- Bars grew fastest at 11.5%, while racetrack betting parlors finished flat against last July.
- The state collected $20.8 million in franchise fees, including $16.2 million from truck stops alone.
BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana video poker machines won $68.8 million in July, up 6.9% from a year earlier, with truck stops accounting for $50 million of the total, according to the Louisiana State Police’s monthly video gaming revenue report.
Truck Stops Hold Nearly Three-Quarters Of The Market
The state’s 197 licensed truck stops ran 7,998 video gaming devices in July, an average of about 41 machines per location, and won $49,989,619. That is 72.6% of the statewide total, up 6.5% from July 2025 and up 5.1% from June.
Truck stops also carry the heaviest tax load in the system. Their $16,246,626 in franchise fees works out to 32.5% of win, against 26% at bars, restaurants and hotels and 18% at racetrack betting parlors, and it made up 78.2% of the $20,767,672 the state collected across all five location types.
The concentration runs opposite to the footprint. Bars account for 771 of the network’s 1,357 locations, more than half, yet won $10.3 million, about a fifth of what the truck stops did. The difference is density: the report shows bars averaging between three and four devices per location against the truck stops’ 41, which is how 197 locations out-earn the other 1,160 combined.
Bars Grow Fastest, Betting Parlors Stall
Bars won $10,331,513 in July, up 11.5% from a year earlier, the fastest growth of any category and a 6.4% gain on June. Restaurants added 8.6% year over year at $3,702,763.
The 15 racetrack off-track betting locations, which run 1,079 devices, won $4,715,792, just $1,437 more than in July 2025, a 0.0% change in the report’s own accounting. The five hotel locations remain the smallest slice of the market at $89,584 across 32 devices.
The report breaks the route network out by location type only. No company or route operator is named, so the categories, not brands, are the grain the state publishes. The file lists win and franchise fees but no payout percentage, so Louisiana’s route machines sit outside the casino disclosures tracked in slot payout percentages by state across the states with slots.
New Fiscal Year Opens 4.9% Ahead Of June
July is the first month of Louisiana’s 2026-27 fiscal year, so the month’s figures also stand as the year-to-date line. The $68.8 million total beat June’s $65.6 million by 4.9% and July 2025’s $64.4 million by 6.9%. Franchise fees of $20.8 million ran ahead of the $19.4 million collected a year earlier by the same margin.
The Louisiana State Police post the video gaming file monthly alongside the state’s casino, racino and sports wagering reports. The August report, the second month of the fiscal year, is the next release on that schedule.
