{"id":201822,"date":"2022-02-16T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T22:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=201822"},"modified":"2022-02-16T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T23:50:07","slug":"new-jersey-sportsbooks-take-record-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/new-jersey-sportsbooks-take-record-action\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Sportsbooks Take Record Action Despite New York Mobile Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Jersey sportsbooks fared just fine as New York oddsmakers began taking bets online last month. In fact, the Garden State experienced record wagering.<\/p>\n

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Nick Thompson, a New York resident, has regularly crossed the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey to place sports bets on his phone. Despite such mobile betting now live in New York, New Jersey oddsmakers took record action in January of 2022. (Image: The New York Times<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Numbers released today by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) reveal that more sports bets were placed in the state in January than in any other month since such legal gambling began in June of 2018.<\/p>\n

Oddsmakers took more than $1.34 billion in bets in January, easily eclipsing the state’s previous best mark of just over $1.3 billion set last October. The January 2022 sports betting handle represents a 40% jump from January 2021.<\/p>\n

On the record action, casino, racetrack, and mobile oddsmakers kept approximately $60.2 million.<\/p>\n

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Legal online sports betting commenced January 8 in New York. The state’s debut of internet sportsbooks is expected to cut into New Jersey’s sports betting market. Throngs of bettors residing in the New York City area have been traveling across the Hudson River to place their bets online for more than three years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But in the first month of neighborly competition, New Jersey more than held its own. New York has nonetheless dethroned New Jersey as the top sports betting state, as mobile sports betting handle there hit nearly $2 billion<\/a> in the first 30 days.<\/p>\n

Casinos Still Recovering<\/b><\/h2>\n

January was a promising start to the year for New Jersey sportsbooks. But Atlantic City casino revenues continue to lag behind pre-pandemic<\/a> levels.<\/p>\n

Brick-and-mortar gross gaming revenue (GGR) from slot machines and table games totaled $183.6 million. Though that number is 15% better than January 2021, it’s down more than 4% from January 2020. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) ordered the nine Atlantic City casinos to suspend operations in mid-March of 2020 in response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

James Plousis, chair of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, says January’s performance was still positive and signals that the land-based properties are continuing to recover from the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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It is encouraging to see Atlantic City’s recent positive momentum continue in the winter months. The casinos’ recent performance provides cause for even more optimism as the spring season approaches,”<\/strong> Plousis said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Atlantic City casinos offset their brick-and-mortar losses with iGaming’s ongoing surge. Revenue from interactive slots, table games, and poker rake totaled a record $137.8 million — 33% better than January 2021, and 157% higher than January 2020.<\/p>\n

State Modifies Reporting<\/b><\/h2>\n

Joe Lupo, president of Hard Rock Atlantic City and the Casino Association of New Jersey, has been campaigning for state gaming regulators to modify how their monthly GGR reports are conveyed. Lupo has voiced frustrations with media outlets reporting robust Atlantic City gaming revenue, when much of that income goes to companies that have no physical presence<\/a> in the beachfront casino town.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Lupo has called on the Division of Gaming Enforcement to separate or exclude mobile sports betting and iGaming revenue from the monthly lump sum. While the DGE hasn’t appeased that wish, the state’s January gaming report did clearly specify results by vertical — something the agency didn’t do last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Jersey sportsbooks fared just fine as New York oddsmakers began taking bets online last month. In fact, the Garden State experienced record wagering. Numbers released today by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) reveal that more sports bets were placed in the state in January than in any other month since such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":201824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew Jersey Sportsbooks Take Record Action in January 2022<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New Jersey sportsbooks fared just fine as New York began taking bets online last month. 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