New Jersey shatters its own sports betting record, taking in more than $748 million in bets in September
New Jersey’s fast-growing sports betting market
blew past its own national record in September, taking in more than $748
million in bets from sports gamblers finally able to wager on football amid the
coronavirus outbreak.
Figures released Thursday from the
New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show Atlantic City’s nine casinos and the horse racing
tracks that offer sports betting set a new national monthly record.
Just a month earlier in August, those
same casinos and tracks set a national record with $668 million wagered on
sports.
Both figures eclipse what had been
the U.S. monthly record of $614 million set in Nevada in November 2019.
AP wire
services helped contribute to this report.