Other big online winners included Resorts Digital, the internet arm of Resorts Casino, which won $47.2 million, up over 26%, and the Borgata, which won nearly $38 million online, down 14.4%. The Golden Nugget, which has long had a robust online gambling operation, won over $50 million from internet casino games in November, up nearly 33% from a year earlier. When all the money won in-person, online and from sports betting by the casinos and three racetracks is combined, the total amount won in November was $482.4 million - an increase of 9.4% from a year earlier.

Of the nine casinos in New Jersey, only Hard Rock and the Ocean Casino resort won more from in-person gamblers in November of this year than they did in November 2019, before the pandemic broke out. That is largely why the casinos consider money won from in-person gamblers to be their key business.Īnd that key business continues to lag behind pre-pandemic levels.

These revenue streams must be shared with partners like sports books and tech platforms and are not solely for the casinos to keep. She said it remains to be seen how the surge in online and sports betting affect the casinos' overall profitability. 'There will never be a replacement for the in-person gaming experience, and the current relatively flat revenues from brick-and-mortar gaming may be simply evidence of a stable market.” “Rather than diminishing the brick-and-mortar gaming revenues, internet gaming and sports betting seem to be well-received consumer products that are filling a niche for certain gamblers,” she said. Jane Bokunewicz, director of the Lloyd Levenson Institute at Stockton University, which studies the Atlantic City gambling industry, noted that internet and sports betting accounted for about 45% of Atlantic City's revenue in November.īut she views it as complementary to in-person casinos instead of competing with them. Taken together, these numbers provide fresh evidence that technology and a wider menu of wagering options are remaking the way some people gamble in New Jersey, where in-person gambling at a physical casino had long been the main way to bet.

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