New York Now Leads Nation in Mobile Sports Betting
Good morning. Today we’ll look at New York State’s surge in the newly legalized world of online sports betting (and how bettors used ‘Twosday’ to play the numbers).
Also, Mayor Eric Adams is criticized for some appointments. Since New York State opened online betting in early January, it has become the biggest bookmaking market in the nation, surpassing Nevada, the nation’s gambling mecca, and New Jersey, which captured the No.
1 spot in mobile sports betting after legalizing the practice in 2018. There have been more than $2 billion in wagers in New York State so far, bringing nearly $80 million in tax revenue, reports my colleague Jesse McKinley.
A quarter of the nation’s mobile-sports wagers on the Super Bowl came from New York. That demand was probably whetted by a long wait for New York gamblers, who watched enviously as New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania all legalized placing bets on a mobile phone or laptop in recent years.
