1 American Gaming Association: Legal Sports Betting Hits Record Revenue In 2025
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While costs on legal sports wagering reached new heights in 2023, the rate of growth could slow this year in the lack of brand-new states adopting the practice.

Americans bet a record $119.84 billion on sports betting in 2023, up 27.5% from 2022, according to the American Gaming Association's Commercial Gaming Revenue Tracker. Those bets translated into $10.92 billion in profits in 2023, a 44.5% dive from the prior year. The difference in the sum of all bets put relative to earnings growth was connected to a 9.1% nationwide hold portion last year, up from 8.1% in 2022, according to the gaming industry's trade association. The hold refers to the percentage of cash that a sportsbook or bookie maintains after all bets have been settled.

The 2023 year-end figures will continue to grow as the American Gaming Association (AGA) noted they do not yet include the most current data from Kentucky and Arizona.

AGA executives associated the general industry enhancement to a legal sports wagering footprint that has actually expanded to 38 states and the District of Columbia.
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The sports-betting industry gained from five states becoming functional in 2023: Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Ohio. Together, those 5 states contributed $1.49 billion in sports-betting income in 2015.

Ohio completed the year 4th among the states in regards to sports-betting income with $936.6 million. Massachusetts was ninth at $483.2 million.

Legal sportsbooks ended up 2023 on a high note as the fourth quarter attracted wagers of $40.02 billion, up 34.4% from the last period of 2022. That included bets on NFL and college football, MLB's post-season, and the starts of the brand-new NBA and NHL seasons. Revenue amounted to $3.41 billion, up 30.8% from the prior-year period.

Enactment outlook

The very first quarter of 2024 should likewise produce strong market profits, with the AGA estimating that Americans wager $23.1 billion on the 2024 Super Bowl and a new state coming online quickly. North Carolina is set to offer online sports wagering March 11, in time for the March Madness college basketball tournaments.

Despite the strong start for 2024, the year will deal with a difficult contrast to 2023. AGA Senior Vice President of Government Relations Chris Cylke informed reporters Feb. 20 that it is unclear how lots of more states, if any, will join the legal sports betting lineup this year.

"Some of them have pretty significant political obstacles in terms of getting sports betting itself enacted," Cylke said, "When we take a look at the map, there might be possibly two or three states that have some activity and get it across the surface line this year. There might be no, which would be disappointing, however that's where we are right now with the development that we've made over the past almost 6 years."

Alabama, Georgia and Missouri were pointed out as states that could potentially see legislative movement this year.

AGA Vice President of Research David Forman said that in the absence of substantial state additions, in 2024 and 2025 could originate from increased activity in maturing jurisdictions. Forman pointed specifically to 2023 gains made by New Jersey and Illinois. New Jersey legislated sports betting in June 2018, simply one month after the Supreme Court overruled a federal restriction on the practice. Illinois legislated sports wagering in 2020.
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The legal sports wagering market will continue to grow from wagerers moving from unlawful betting outlets and from brand-new consumers entering sports betting in basic, Forman stated.

In 2023, New york city registered a 24.2% year-over-year increase to complete as the state with the highest income at just under $1.70 billion. New Jersey, up 31.9% to $1.01 billion, inched previous Illinois to recover the second spot. Illinois' income grew 26.1% to $1.00 billion. Slipping behind Ohio, Pennsylvania was fifth with $686.9 million in income, up 15%.

Total gaming

All informed, the US industrial video gaming market scored a new earnings record for a 3rd straight year, with each sector publishing their top mark. The AGA reported that overall earnings from land-based gambling establishment games, sports wagering and iGaming reached $66.52 billion for the calendar year, a 10% gain from the previous record embeded in 2022.

When the National Indian Gaming Commission reports later on this year, total US yearly gaming revenue will approach $110 billion.

Collectively, brick-and-mortar gambling establishments pulled a 3.3% gain in 2023 to $49.36 billion from slots and table games, while iGaming, which presently only happens in 6 states, signed up a 22.9% income increase to $6.17 billion.

Gambling taxes generated $14.4 billion for state and local governments in 2023, according to the AGA, a 9.7% increase from 2022 levels.

Commercial land-based video gaming - encompassing casino slots, table games and retail sports betting - accounted for $50.02 billion, or 75.3% of the total revenue in 2023. Online video gaming generated $16.43 billion, representing 24.7% of overall income.

Jurisdictional watch

Among the 35 commercial gaming jurisdictions that were functional in 2022 and 2023, 31 reported an increase in combined income from land-based casino video games, sports wagering and iGaming. Twenty-eight signed up new annual records.

Three states - Florida, Indiana and Mississippi - sustained low single-digit decreases in 2023. Washington, DC, which just provides sports wagering, had a 17.6% retraction, the biggest drop amongst all jurisdictions. Washington is home to the Commanders in the NFL, the Wizards NBA team, the Capitals in the NHL and the Nationals MLB group.