The new figure confirmed 2020 as a major outlier: The summer totals came in at $799.7 million in 2019, $346.5 million in the pandemic year of 2020 - with zero retail casino dollars in June - and $753.8 million in 2021. In July 2019, they reaped $277.2 million, much like a virtually identical $276.9 million in July 2021.ĭuring August 2019, a season-high $286.5 million flowed from gamblers at the casinos, and $262.4 million was the August 2021 revenue figure announced Thursday by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement. The casinos collected $236 million in revenue from their brick-and-mortar operations in June 2019, and $214.5 million in that month two years later. With Hard Rock and Ocean Casino Resort opening their doors in mid-2018, the following year was the first one with the “new normal” of nine casinos in Atlantic City.Īlso normal, of course, was the lack of need for a face mask, social distancing, or extensive cleaning work by casino staff to try to limit the spread of the potentially lethal COVID-19.įast-forward two years, and … well, perhaps surprisingly, things don’t look so different.
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