Monthly record revenue across regulated sports betting and online gambling in New Jersey helped to push total gaming revenue up by 34.5% year-on-year to $294.0m (\u00a3224.7m\/\u20ac259.8m) in March.<\/p>\n
Land-based casinos remain the main source of gaming income in the state, with casino win up by 15.7% year-on-year to $223.2m. Slots win drove growth in this market, with revenue up by 18.5% to $162.6m, while table games revenue also increased 8.7% year-on-year to $60.5m.<\/p>\n
In terms of online gambling, revenue was up by 53% to $39.1m, surpassing the previous monthly total set in\u00a0January\u00a0of this year, according to figures released by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.<\/p>\n
Growth in the online gaming market came from products such as slots and table games, with revenue for such services up 57.7% to $37.2m. In contrast revenue from online peer-to-peer games (poker) fell 1.6% to $5.60m \u2013 the only market sector that saw a decline in March.<\/p>\n
Golden Nugget remains some way out on front as the leading operator in the market, generating revenue of $14.2m in March, up 64.4% on the same month last year.<\/p>\n
Resorts Digital saw its online gambling revenue more than double on a year-on-year basis, with the $8.5m posted in March up by 100.1% on the $4.2m that it recorded in the same month in 2017.<\/p>\n
The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa retained third place with igaming revenue of $5.4m for the month, up 18.7% on last year, with Caesars Interactive in fourth on revenue of $5.1m, up 16.4% on March 2018.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, New Jersey saw sports wagering revenue hit $31.7m in March, the highest monthly total since the state moved to legalise sports betting in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling on PASPA last spring.<\/p>\n
Meadowlands, in partnership with Paddy Power Betfair\u2019s FanDuel, remains the market leader with sports betting revenue of $17.6m for March. This is more than double the $8.1m in reported in\u00a0February.<\/p>\n
Resorts Digital and partner DraftKings, ranked second with revenue of $7.2m, up from $3.7m in February, while Monmouth Park and William Hill was the only other sports wagering partnership to post revenue in the millions of dollars for the month ($1.96m).<\/p>\n
A busy March means total gaming win for the state during the first three months of the year amounted to $764.8m, up 28.6% on the same point in 2018.<\/p>\n
Online gambling win was up by 50.3% year-on-year to $104.5m, while sports betting revenue, which does not have a comparative total, amounted to $63.2m in the period<\/p>\n