New Jersey’s regulated on-line gambling marketplace had its second-best month on record in April, despite the poker vertical continuing to wet-blanket the numbers.
Official stats released by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) show the state’s on-line licensees generated revenue of nearly $36.6m in April, a almost 59% improvement over the market’s performance within the same month last year but roughly $2.5m beneath March’s record tally.
Trust us, we’re as tired of writing this as you’re reading it, but April’s gains had been entirely because of the online casino vertical, which shot up almost two-thirds year-on-year to $34.9m. In equally clichéd fashion, online poker income slipped five.3% to $1.67m, not far off the vertical’s record-low benchmark of $1.56m set final November.
For the year-to-date, New Jersey’s on-line income is up 52.4% to just more than $141m, with on-line casino rising 57.2% to $133.8m while poker is off two.5% to slightly much less than $7.3m.
The Golden Nugget’s family of sites – the Nugget’s personal website, BetfairCasino, PlaySugarHouse and Churchill Downs Inc’s new BetAmerica – maintained its on-line casino income crown with $13.85m in April, only around $300k off its record performance in March.
Resorts Digital Gaming retained its runner-up status in April with $7.1m – down from $8.5m in March but nearly twice the sum Resorts booked in April 2018 – with $559k coming via The Stars Group’s PokerStars brand.
The Borgata casino’s family of websites managed to surpass (albeit by the slimmest of margins) its March total of $5.44m by reporting $5.46 in April. Of that April sum, around $391k came via the 3 poker websites operating below the Borg’s license.
Caesars Interactive Entertainment New Jersey earned $4.6m in April, with a market-leading $718k from poker. The rest of the casino-only websites completed as follows: the Tropicana ($3.7m), Hard Rock Atlantic City ($1.55m) and also the Ocean Casino Resort ($308k).