Current:Home > ContactNew Jersey overall gambling revenue up 10.4% in April, but in-person casino winnings were down -DataFinance
New Jersey overall gambling revenue up 10.4% in April, but in-person casino winnings were down
View
Date:2025-04-16 08:20:41
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that accept sports bets and their online partners won more than half a billion dollars from gamblers in April, an increase of 10.4% from a year earlier, state gambling regulators said Thursday.
But that was due in large part to the state’s second-best month ever for internet gambling. The industry’s key business — money won from in-person gamblers — continued to sag, down 6.3% from a year ago.
Figures released by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the casinos, tracks and their partners won nearly $511 million in April from in-person gambling, internet betting and sports bets.
But money from internet and sports bets must be shared with casino partners such as sports books and tech platforms and is not solely for the casinos to keep. For that reason, casinos consider in-person winnings to be their core business.
And it’s one that continues to struggle.
Six of the nine casinos won less from in-person gamblers in April than they did a year earlier. And six of nine casinos also won less in-person money this April than they did in April 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Jane Bokunewicz, director of the Lloyd Levenson Institute at Stockton University, which studies the Atlantic City gambling market, said that while in-person casino winnings are likely to improve in the coming summer months as visitation spikes, Atlantic City may see more of its revenue growth come from non-gambling areas such as food and beverage sales.
“It will be many months before a clear picture of this trend is available, but operators’ recent investments in improving resort offerings suggest that a significant shift in the market’s overall revenue mix could be coming,” she said. “A focus beyond gaming, to the elements that make Atlantic City unique and a stronger competitor against the threat of New York City casinos, is simply good business.”
In terms of in-person revenue, the Borgata won $58.3 million, up half a percent from a year earlier; Hard Rock won $41.1 million, up 6%; Ocean won $28.8 million, down 15.6% in a month during which part or all of its casino floor was shut down for four days while switching from one computer system to another; Tropicana won $17.7 million, down 9.2%; Harrah’s won $16.4 million, down nearly 25%; Caesars won $16 million, down 18.4%; Bally’s won $13.1 million, down 4.9%; Golden Nugget won $12.7 million, down 3.1% and Resorts won $12.4 million, virtually flat from a year ago.
Including internet and sports betting revenue, Borgata won $107.7 million, down 0.2%; Golden Nugget won nearly $66 million, up 20.4%; Hard Rock won $55.2 million, up 18.6%; Ocean won $35.7 million, down 8.6%; Tropicana won $34.8 million, up nearly 28%; Bally’s won $21.5 million, up 5%; Harrah’s won $18.3 million, down 16%; Caesars won $16.1 million, down 19.3%; and Resorts won $12.1 million, down nearly 2%.
Among internet-only entities, Resorts Digital won $66.4 million, up 7.2%, and Caesars Interactive NJ won $612,910 in a month in which three internet gambling sites switched from the interactive company to Tropicana.
Internet gambling had its second-best month in April with nearly $188 million won online, an increase of 18.2% from a year ago.
Sports betting brought in over $1 billion in April, with $106 million of that total kept as revenue after paying off winning bets and other expenses.
The Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, near New York City, won the lion’s share of that at $73.1 million. Resorts Digital won nearly $19 million; Freehold Raceway won $2.2 million, and Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport won $953,798.
___
Follow Wayne Parry on X at www.twitter.com/WayneParryAC
3%;
veryGood! (9672)
Related
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- Duke Energy Takes Aim at the Solar Panels Atop N.C. Church
- Niall Horan Teasing Details About One Direction’s Group Chat Is Simply Perfect
- Patrick Mahomes Calls Brother Jackson's Arrest a Personal Thing
- A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
- The Best Early Memorial Day Sales 2023: Kate Spade, Nordstrom Rack, J.Crew, Coach, BaubleBar, and More
- iCarly Cast Recalls Emily Ratajkowski's Hilarious Cameo
- Exxon Pushes Back on California Cities Suing It Over Climate Change
- At site of suspected mass killings, Syrians recall horrors, hope for answers
- This Sheet Mask Is Just What You Need to Clear Breakouts and Soothe Irritated, Oily Skin
Ranking
- Sam Taylor
- State of the Union: Trump Glorifies Coal, Shuts Eyes to Climate Risks
- More ‘Green Bonds’ Needed to Fund the Clean Energy Revolution
- College Baseball Player Angel Mercado-Ocasio Dead at 19 After Field Accident
- Taylor Swift makes surprise visit to Kansas City children’s hospital
- For many, a 'natural death' may be preferable to enduring CPR
- Avoid mailing your checks, experts warn. Here's what's going on with the USPS.
- After Two Nights of Speeches, Activists Ask: Hey, What About Climate Change?
Recommendation
Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
College Baseball Player Angel Mercado-Ocasio Dead at 19 After Field Accident
Trendy rooibos tea finally brings revenues to Indigenous South African farmers
The Lighting Paradox: Cheaper, Efficient LEDs Save Energy, and People Use More
Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
Rules allow transgender woman at Wyoming chapter, and a court can't interfere, sorority says
What we know about the health risks of ultra-processed foods
Atmospheric Rivers Fuel Most Flood Damage in the U.S. West. Climate Change Will Make Them Worse.