Its September and October handles nearly reached $1.3 billion on each occasion, representing healthy double-digit year-over-year gains while ranking behind only January’s all-time mark of $1.35 billion.įriday’s figure, however, was an upward surge of 47.3% from the $1.1 billion generated in November 2022 and a 20.3% increase from October. New Jersey watched the Empire State become the first to reach $2 billion in accepted monthly wagers in October before pushing it to the current record of more than $2.12 billion in November.īut New Jersey has shown a resurgence in betting handle in the fall months coinciding with the NFL season. The Garden State ceded the national lead to its neighbor last year after New York mobile betting launched at the start of 2022. Once the epicenter of sports wagering in the United States outside Nevada, the New Jersey sports betting industry turned back the clock Friday after the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement reported a record monthly handle of $1.62 billion for November.
