{"id":900181,"date":"2025-12-17T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=900181"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:29:19","slug":"a-tale-of-two-atlantic-citys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/a-tale-of-two-atlantic-citys\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Atlantic Citys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was the best of times … for Borgata<\/strong>, Hard Rock Atlantic City<\/strong> and Ocean Casino Resort<\/strong>. It was the worst of times for everyone else. Borgata takings rocketed 25% to $72 million, outpacing everyone else. Hard Rock Atlantic City was up 2% to $45 million and Ocean Casino leapt 14.5% to $39 million. The only other casino to hold its own was Harrah’s<\/strong> Resort<\/strong>, flat at $18.5 million. Caesars Atlantic City<\/strong> plunged 24% to $12.5 million and Tropicana Atlantic City<\/strong> fell 4.5% to $16 million. In other words, it took Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> three casinos to make slightly more than Hard Rock did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The grind joints were bunched closely together. Resorts Atlantic City<\/strong> plummeted 14% to $12 million, while Golden Nugget<\/strong>‘s $11 million was a 6.5% fade. Bally’s Atlantic City<\/strong> occupied its customary last place with $10.5 million, off 1.5%. Now that Bally’s Corp<\/strong>. has snagged one of the brass rings in New York City<\/strong>, its Atlantic City<\/strong> “flagship” is living on borrowed time. iGaming brought in an additional $253 million, led by FanDuel<\/strong>‘s $61 million. BallyBet<\/strong> made more digitally than Bally’s terrestrial casino did: $14.5 million. DraftKings<\/strong>‘ $60.5 million was barely edged by FanDuel, while BetMGM<\/strong> had to settle for $51 million and a robust third place. Caesars Palace Online<\/strong> garnered $23 million, while also-rans included BetRivers<\/strong> ($8 million), Hollywood Casino<\/strong> ($4.5 million) and PointsBet<\/strong> ($8 million). Sports betting saw revenue of $146.5 million from $1.3 billion in handle, representing a tight 12% hold. The lucky bookies included FanDuel ($62.5 million) and DraftKings ($38.5 million). BetMGM ($12 million) staved off Fanatics<\/strong> ($11 million), and all were trailed by Caesars Sportsbook<\/strong> ($5.5 million), ESPN Bet <\/strong>($3 million) and BetRivers ($1 million).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Gambling win next door<\/strong> in Pennsylvania<\/strong> slumped a tiny bit, down 1%. One less weekend day will have that effect. Parx Casino<\/strong> was down 1.5% but still led all comers with $46.5 million. Other Philadelphia<\/strong>-area casinos were led by Philadelphia Live<\/strong>, which slid 8.5% but made $21 million. Rivers Philadelphia<\/strong> flagged 6.5% to $16.5 million, Valley Forge Resort <\/strong>was flat at $11.5 million and Harrah’s Philadelphia<\/strong> (pictured<\/em>) actually hopped 5% to $11 million. Outstate, Wind Creek Bethlehem<\/strong> dominated, though flat at $44.5 million. Mohegan Pocono <\/strong>was up 6% to $16.5 million, Mount Airy Resort<\/strong> jumped 6% to $17 million and Pocono Downs<\/strong> rose 3.5% to $7.5 million. In the Pittsburgh<\/strong> market, Rivers Pittsburgh<\/strong> slumped 5% to $26 million, whilst Pittsburgh Live<\/strong> was flat at $9 million and Hollywood Meadows<\/strong> dipped 4.5% to $16 million. Hollywood Penn National <\/strong>stumbled 4% to $12.5 million, while Lady Lucky Nemacolin<\/strong>‘s lucky streak seems to have run out, as it was down 5% to $2 million. The remaining satellites were led by Hollywood York <\/strong>($8 million, 4%), followed by Hollywood Morgantown<\/strong> ($6 million, 1%) and Parx Shippensburg<\/strong> ($3 million, 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

iGaming engendered $242.5 million more, with FanDuel<\/strong> predominant ($71 million). It shared the pie with BetMGM<\/strong> ($39 million), BetRivers <\/strong>($38 million), DraftKings<\/strong> ($37 million), Caesars Palace Online<\/strong> ($13 million) and Hollywood Casino<\/strong> ($6 million). Sports betting added another $125 million off of handle of $991 million, for a 12.5% hold. Again, FanDuel was tops with $58 million, followed by DraftKings ($32 million), ESPN Bet<\/strong> ($4 million), BetRivers ($5 million), BetMGM ($6 million) and Caesars Sportsbook<\/strong> ($2 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was the best of times … for Borgata, Hard Rock Atlantic City and Ocean Casino Resort. It was the worst of times for everyone else. Borgata takings rocketed 25% to $72 million, outpacing everyone else. Hard Rock Atlantic City was up 2% to $45 million and Ocean Casino leapt 14.5% to $39 million. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83928,"featured_media":883215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1728],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Atlantic-City-gamblers-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1928&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900188,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900181\/revisions\/900188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}