New Jersey online mantra: casino pride, poker shame

New Jersey’s regulated online gambling market posted its ninth straight month of +$20m revenue despite the online poker vertical posting double-digit year-on-year declines.

Figures released Wednesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) show state-licensed online gambling operators generating revenue of $20.6m in November, up exactly one-fifth from the same month last year, while roughly flat from October 2017’s tally.

The online casino vertical posted its usual gaudy gains, rising 24.6% to $18.8m while online poker tumbled 13.1% to $1.8m, not far off the poker vertical’s historic low of $1.73m set this June. For the year-to-date, overall online revenue is up 26.1% to over $224.8m, with casino rising 31.6% to $202.5m and poker falling 8.6% to $22.3m.

As market watchers have come to expect, the Golden Nugget’s casino-only online operations – which include the Nugget’s own site plus Betfaircasino.com and Playsugarhouse.com – outpaced all comers with just under $6.2m, a mere $50k off the market’s all-time individual operator monthly record, which was set by (you guessed it) the Nugget this July.