- New Jersey’s online casinos won $256.8 million combined from slots and table games in August, up 4.5% from a year earlier.
- Atlantic City’s nine physical casinos won $72.5 million from table games in August, down 6.5% even as online win kept climbing.
- FanDuel led every internet gaming brand at $56.7 million for the month despite a 0.7% year-over-year dip.
- New Jersey splits slot and table-game win for its casinos every month but not for the online games alongside them.
TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey’s online casino win reached $256.8 million combined from slots and table games in August, a 4.5% increase from a year earlier, according to the Division of Gaming Enforcement’s August revenue report, released Sept. 16.
The August Numbers
New Jersey’s total internet gaming win – combining online casino games and peer-to-peer poker – came to $259.3 million for August, up 4.4% from a year earlier. Nearly all of it came from the category the DGE labels “Other Authorized Games”: every regulated online casino game except poker, from slots to blackjack to baccarat, worth $256.8 million, up 4.5%. Peer-to-peer poker added the remaining $2.6 million, down 3.2%.
The online growth offset weakness everywhere else in the state’s gaming numbers. Atlantic City’s nine casino hotels won $294.9 million in person during August, down 5.5% from a year earlier, and sports wagering revenue fell 25% to $61.4 million, a decline the DGE attributed primarily to a later start to the fall sports calendar, including college football, and a lower win percentage.
Online casino play, covered on our guide to online blackjack sites for New Jersey players, was the one category that grew, holding the state’s year-to-date internet gaming win at $2.13 billion, up 13.2%.
Where The Growth Is Coming From
Brand-level figures in the DGE report show New Jersey’s growth isn’t coming from its two biggest online casino apps. FanDuel Casino, which operates under Golden Nugget Atlantic City’s license, still led every internet gaming brand at $56.7 million for the month, though that was down 0.7% from last August. DraftKings, licensed through Resorts, brought in $43.5 million, down 7.5%.
New Jersey’s two largest online casino apps both shrank in August while smaller brands grew: BetMGM, operating under Borgata’s license, rose 7.8% to $35.1 million, and Bally’s-licensed BetFanatics climbed 30.7% to $13.1 million. New Jersey’s overall growth is increasingly coming from the brands chasing FanDuel and DraftKings, not from the two market leaders.
The Missing Split
For the physical floor, the DGE’s numbers are specific: Atlantic City’s nine casinos won $222.4 million from slot machines in August, down 5.1%, and $72.5 million from table games – blackjack, craps, roulette and the rest – down 6.5%. No equivalent split exists anywhere in the online figures. The division does not report how much of the $256.8 million “Other Authorized Games” total came from blackjack and other table games versus slot machines, a distinction it publishes for Atlantic City’s floor in the same monthly release.
The DGE’s monthly report shows how much FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM and the rest of the New Jersey blackjack sites are winning overall – not how much of that win is coming from the tables instead of the reels.
