{"id":9963,"date":"2019-06-29T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T23:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2019-07-06T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T23:31:05","slug":"new-jersey-new-king-of-online-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/29\/new-jersey-new-king-of-online-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey New King of Online Betting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/move-over-nevada-jersey-now-160054804.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance (opens in a new tab)\">from Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Move Over, Nevada: New Jersey Is Now the Sports-Betting King<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <strong>Eben Novy-Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hlnPU2BJ4-c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; New Jersey legalized sports betting a year ago, and last month the state\u2019s operators passed a major milestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time, sports bettors wagered more in New Jersey than in Nevada, which for decades was the lone, dominant state in the sports-betting landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gamblers wagered $318.9 million in May at New Jersey casinos and racetracks, and via mobile apps, according to the state\u2019s Division of Gaming Enforcement. On Thursday, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said the state\u2019s total for the month was $317.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The milestone continues a trend expected in the industry for a few months now. Not only does New Jersey have a lot more people than Nevada, but it benefits from customers coming from New York and Pennsylvania to wager remotely. The mobile options in New Jersey also feature better technology, which helps drive betting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/move-over-nevada-jersey-now-160054804.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Yahoo! (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Yahoo!<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bloomberg via Yahoo! Finance Move Over, Nevada: New Jersey Is Now the Sports-Betting King by Eben Novy-Williams (Bloomberg) &#8212; New Jersey legalized sports betting a year ago, and last month the state\u2019s operators passed a major milestone. For the first time, sports bettors wagered more in New Jersey than in Nevada, which for decades [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}