Horseshoe Hammond<\/a>, for example. The Caesars Entertainment casino is located less than a mile from the Illinois border. In February 2020 \u2013 the last month before sports betting became legal in Illinois \u2013 the Horseshoe\u2019s retail sportsbook posted a handle of $12.4 million. Last month, its handle was just $4.1 million.<\/p>\nA short drive away is the Ameristar Casino in East Chicago. The Penn National venue didn\u2019t take as big a hit as Horseshoe. Still, Ameristar\u2019s sportsbook saw its handle drop by $1 million from February 2020 as it took just $4.9 million in bets last month.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just impacting those near the Illinois state line, either. In February 2020, the Blue Chip Casino\u2019s sportsbook in Michigan City reported a handle of $2.1 million. Last month \u2013 the first full month for mobile sports betting in nearby Michigan \u2013 the Boyd Gaming property saw its retail handle drop to just $632,915.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All good things must come to an end sometime. And for sports betting in Indiana, the time for that was February. The state\u2019s sportsbooks posted a handle of $273.9 million last month, down from $348.2 million in January. That ends a string of record-setting betting totals that dated back to September, according to data from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":167194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33810,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Indiana Sports Betting Dips in Feb., Can It Rebound with March Madness<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n