New Jersey’s casino industry had $209.4 million in revenue during the month of September, down from $240.2 million in September 2013, according to a state press release dated Oct. 15.
That’s a 12.8-percent decrease.
Atlantic City has so far lost four casinos this year. A fifth could close next month.
The casinos that were open both in September 2013 and September 2014 did see a slight casino revenue uptick, if you want to look for some good news. If you factor in online gaming, operators that haven’t been closed had overall gaming win increase by a solid margin of 9.1 percent.
New Jersey’s online gaming sites reported Internet gaming win of nearly $10.3 million in September. As of September 30, 2014, 456,502 Internet gaming accounts have been created, up 5.8 percent from the 431,617 accounts as of August 31, 2014.
Ultimate Gaming recently decided to leave the New Jersey online gaming market.
Of the $10.3 million, $2.085 million came from online poker, while the rest came from the other casino games authorized for play in cyberspace.
Total revenue from Atlantic City’s casino industry is $2,141,900,543 through September, down 3.2 percent from the same period in 2013. That’s even with web gaming revenue included.
So far this year, Garden State gambling sites have taken in nearly $94 million.
