“In keeping with established seasonal patterns, total and brick-and-mortar casino revenue - slots, table games and poker - for Atlantic City’s casinos began to cool in October,” said Jane Bokunewicz, director of the Lloyd Levenson Institute at Stockton University, which studies the Atlantic City gambling industry.īut she also noted that in-person gambling winnings for the first 10 months of this year ($2.35 billion) are running 4.5% ahead of the amount won over the same 10 months in 2019. New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting, and the online partners of both types of gambling outlets won over $445 million in October, a decline of less than 1% from the same period a year earlier.įigures released Thursday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement showed that news for the most important metric for the Atlantic City casino industry was mixed: Money won from in-person gamblers at the casinos fell by more than 7% from a year earlier, but had surpassed the level of October 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
