New Jersey Division of Gaming changes revenue reports

Press of Atlantic City – For 35 years, analysts, reporters and curious gamblers scouring monthly casino revenue reports have been able to scrutinize the performance of more than two dozen table games and 10 denominations of slot machines at each property. That decades-long standard ended unexpectedly Tuesday as the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement moved toward providing a heavily redacted report — by New Jersey’s standards — calling the results of individual slot types and table games “confidential.” Lawmakers, including state Sens. Jim Whelan and Ray Lesniak, said they were caught by surprise, unaware that the state that has…