Nevada sportsbooks accepted $154.7 million in Super Bowl bets, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Silver State sportsbooks profited $18.8 million, giving them a hold rate of 12.1 percent. The handle fell just shy of the record set in 2018 by Nevada when gamblers bet $156.8 million on the big game.
Nevada’s total handle was the largest in the nation by a wide margin. New Jersey was the next largest market with its books accepting $54.2 million in Super Bowl bets and Pennsylvania came in third with $30.7 million.
New Jersey netted $4.3 million in revenue, while Pennsylvania generated $3.3 million. Online betting accounted for 78.3 percent of the Keystone State’s total handle.
Rhode Island sportsbooks rebounded from a disastrous 2019 Super Bowl that saw sportsbooks lose $2.3 million when the hometown Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams. In 2020, however, sportsbooks in the Ocean State won $800,000 from a total handle of $5.5 million. The state government will receive 51 percent of that revenue as a tax payment.
With 10 of the states with legal sports betting reporting Super Bowl betting totals, there was at least $268.8 million wagered on the game. It is a tiny piece of the $6.8 billion that the American Gaming Association estimated would be wagered.
According to a report from The Baltimore Sun, some states like New York and New Mexico, do not calculate Super Bowl bets separately from the gross monthly total. The reported amount also does not take into account illegal offshore betting.
