“There can be a tremendous amount of benefit.”Įilers and Krejcik Gaming Research analyst Chris Grove said a “healthy debate” could take place in comparisons of New Jersey’s growing online gaming market with Nevada’s online casino potential. “We recognize that change in Nevada has to be spearheaded by the brick and mortar casinos,” Pappas said.
“From our organization’s perspective, Nevada is missing out,” said John Pappas, spokesman for the Washington D.C.-based iDevelopment and Economic Association, which goes by iDEA Growth, a trade organization for the digital and interactive gaming community. New Jersey and Pennsylvania have multiple online gaming websites affiliated with gaming companies tied to Nevada, including MGM Resorts International, Golden Nugget and Caesars Entertainment, which owns the World Series of Poker-affiliated WSOP site. The websites in those states are not just dedicated to poker but also include wagering on table games and slot machines with the same themes found in traditional casino settings. The difference was online gaming, which accounted for more than 75 percent of the revenue. It was a different story in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.īoth states’ casinos were also closed, but New Jersey gaming revenues totaled $178.4 million over the two months.
Gaming win came from mobile sports wagering on Belarusian soccer, Korean baseball, Chinese table tennis, other non-traditional games and gambling on – Nevada’s lone online poker site. In April and May combined, when Nevada’s casinos were closed to slow the spread of COVID-19, statewide gaming revenues totaled $9.44 million, a more than 99 percent decline over the same two months in 2019.
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