New Yorkers placed $472.1 million worth of bets using online sports gambling apps, according to state gaming regulators.
amount of tax revenue. The state takes a 51% cut of gross revenue generated by each of the seven licensed mobile gambling vendors.DraftKings, one of the vendors that was granted a license to operate in the state, said 1.7 million users of its platform placed bets on the game, which was won by the Los Angeles Rams in a thriller over the upstart Cincinnati Bengals.Getty Images
“That was by far the most we’ve ever had in one day and it’s not even close,” DraftKings CEO Jason Robins told Bloomberg.In fiscal year 2022, New York State expects to take in $249 million from taxes on gambling revnues. “Over the past month, we’ve seen how mobile sports wagering can be an economic engine for New York, driving significant funding to our schools, youth sports, and so much more,” Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement.So far, any predictions that New York’s legalization would eat into the Garden State’s share of the mobile gambling pie have proven for naught.
New Jersey residents placed a total of $1.3 billion in online sports bets in the month of January — an all-time record. Thirty states now offer legal online sports betting, though the country’s largest state in terms of population, California, does not.
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