James Plousis, chair of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, said online gambling and sports betting have become permanent fixtures of the Atlantic City gambling industry. Those are the city's two newest casinos, having opened five years ago and steadily seizing market share. But that was largely due to strong performances from the only two casinos whose in-person gambling revenue was higher last month than it was in June 2019: Hard Rock and Ocean. The amount of money the nine casinos collectively won from in-person gamblers in June narrowly surpassed the pre-pandemic level, at $241 million.
New Jersey's casinos, horse tracks that take sports bets, and the online partners of both those types of gambling won more than $457 million in June, an increase of nearly 14% from a year earlier.īut the key metric for Atlantic City's nine casinos - the amount of money won from in-person gamblers - continued to lag at seven of them, according to figures released Friday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.
