New Jersey and Pennsylvania<\/a>, internet casinos have seen a surge in play.<\/p>\nGarden State iGaming jumped 65.6 percent in March to $64.8 million, as all nine casinos in Atlantic City shuttered. In the Keystone State, online gross gaming revenue totaled $24.3 million. Online gambling in Pennsylvania went live last summer.<\/p>\n
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While only three states permit online casinos, 11 states that have authorized sports betting have done so with allowing wagers to be placed remotely.<\/p>\n
A total of 18 states have legal sports betting operational, and the COVID shutdown could convince other states to allow sportsbooks online. There have been minimal issues with the states restricting bets to inside their boundaries, which has been a leading concern among critics to online gambling and mobile sports betting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The post COVID-19 world will be different in many ways, and could result in state lawmakers passing legislation to authorize online gambling and mobile sports betting. That was the takeaway at Friday’s “Sports Betting in America” discussion at the inaugural SBC Digital Summit. Participants on the remote call included various gaming industry executives and consultants, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":134682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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