Voice of America
15 Sep 2023, 09:35 GMT+10
Atlantic City, New Jersey - Commercial casinos in the U.S. had their best July ever this year, winning nearly $5.4 billion from gamblers, according to figures released Thursday by a national gambling industry group.
The American Gaming Association said the casinos' winnings were up nearly 6% from July 2022.
The association also said the casinos remain on pace to have their best year ever in 2023, with winnings from in-person casino games, sports betting and internet gambling at nearly $38 billion over the first seven months of this year, 11% ahead of what they won during the same period in 2022.
The association, the national trade group for the gambling industry, also revealed that revenue from traditional in-person casino games in July was $4.4 billion, a monthly record. It said those figures were aided by seasonal travel trends and the addition of several new physical casino properties around the country, including in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Sports betting generated nearly $498 million in revenue in July, up more than 28% from a year ago. Internet gambling in Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia generated $481.5 million, up nearly 23% from a year ago.
FILE - A customer, right, makes a sports bet at the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., Feb. 6, 2023.
The group said 21 of 31 commercial gambling states that were operational a year ago and have complete data available posted year-over-year revenue growth in July.
Only five states reported their casinos won less over the first seven months of this year than they did a year earlier: Florida (-0.8%); Indiana (-0.5%); Iowa (-0.1%); Louisiana (-0.1%), and Mississippi (-3.8%).
The figures do not include money won at tribal-run casinos, which report their revenue separately.
Combined revenue from online sports betting and internet gambling increased 25.2% year-over-year in July. The rate of revenue growth from land-based casinos, which includes money won from gamblers at slot machines, table games and retail sports betting, remained steady at 2.5% in both June and July. It had been flat for the three months before then.
Through July, year-to-date commercial sports betting revenue reached $5.46 billion, exceeding the same period in the previous year by more than 63%.
Over that same period, internet gambling revenue was $3.45 billion, up 22.6% from a year earlier.
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