Parlay bets, in which the outcomes of two or more contests must be won in order to receive a payout, accounted for nearly $36 million.Īnd it's already becoming clear that sports gamblers prefer to do their betting online or over their smart phones.

In New Jersey, football has accounted for more than $94 million in bets since June, with baseball bringing in nearly $119 million. Nevada's sports books handled $286.5 million in June $244.6 million in July and $247.6 million in August. Losing betting slips in Atlantic City, NJ on Oct, 12, 2018. Mississippi took $9.8 million in bets in August and the first three days of September, while West Virginia saw about $5 million in bets in August.

Since New Jersey won its Supreme Court case, it has been joined by Delaware, West Virginia and Mississippi, which are slowly getting their sports betting operations under way. James said he recently just missed on a 7-team parlay bet involving football six of his teams won but the seventh lost, costing him a payout of $51,000. 'It's way better than having to find a bookie or a guy you know from the barber shop.' 'I just love this,' said Brian James of New York City, a repeat patron of the William Hill Sports Book at Atlantic City's Ocean Resort Casino. Nevada booked $247 million worth of sports bets in August, the most recent month for which statistics are available. With this latest increase, New Jersey is at least putting itself in the same conversation as Nevada, whose sports books were until recently the only place in the U.S. And internet gambling, another growth industry in New Jersey, was up 26.3 percent to $25.7 million.īut it was the sports betting numbers that were most closely watched by industry observers. The extra money from sports betting helped lift Atlantic City's nine casinos to $272.2 million in revenue in September, an increase of 15.5 percent from a year ago. Brian James of New York City discusses his bets for the upcoming weekend of football in the sports betting lounge at the Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Supreme Court decision in May that cleared the way for all 50 states to offer sports betting should they choose. The industry in New Jersey has been keeping just under 8 percent of the amount bet as earnings after winning bets are paid out. Since it began in mid-June, sports betting has attracted over $336 million in bets in the state.

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