Chile’s casinos are on a winning streak, with gross monthly winnings increasing to $US24.8 million, in December, 2009, up from US$9.94 million in January, 2009.

Superintendent of Casinos Francisco Javier Leiva recently presented the 2009 balance sheet for 15 casinos in the country. Leiva says the addition of seven new casinos in 2009 helped gross revenue reach US$220 million for the year. The industry at large is even more successful, as those figures do not include the seven casinos created before 2005.