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Garden State gamblers defied<\/strong> terrible weather to patronize Atlantic City<\/strong> casinos, where receipts were up 1.5% (helped by an extra weekend day last month). Tables were a bit slow, down 3%, but slots were up 3.5%. Borgata<\/strong> was tops with $56.5 million despite a 6% slump. Hard Rock Atlantic City<\/strong> leapt 21% to $46 million, while Ocean Casino Resort<\/strong> was relatively becalmed at $35.5 million (1%). The grind joints were bunched closely together, barely led by Resorts Atlantic City<\/strong> with $11 million or 2% higher. Bally’s Atlantic City<\/strong> crawled out of last place ($10 million, 3.5%) and incrementally past Golden Nugget<\/strong> ($10 million, -4%). The Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> trifecta was led by Harrah’s Resort <\/strong>($16.5 million, -2.5%), followed by Caesars Atlantic City<\/strong> ($14.5 million, 8%), while players fled Tropicana Atlantic City<\/strong> ($13 million, -14%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Not surprisingly, many stayed home to gamble, as iGaming racked up $259 million for a 17% jump. It was a tight race between FanDuel<\/strong> ($60 million), DraftKings<\/strong> ($56.5 million) and BetMGM<\/strong> ($54.5 million). Others in the donnybrook were Caesars Palace Onlin<\/strong>e ($22.5 million), BetRivers<\/strong> ($9.5 million), Hollywood Casino<\/strong> ($3 million) and surprise contender Fanatics<\/strong> with $12 million. Sports betting sagged, down 7% on $1 billion in handle. FanDuel prevailed with $47 million, while DraftKIngs settled for $30.5 million. Fanatics Sportsbook<\/strong> elbowed aside BetMGM, $11 million to $8.5 million. Caesars Sportsbook<\/strong> booked $4 million, BetRivers did $1 million and theScore<\/strong> scored $2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n

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While casinos were hopping<\/strong> in neighboring Illinois<\/strong>, they were flat as a pancake in Indiana<\/strong>, grossing $190.5 million. Thank heaven for the extra weekend day. Among the casinos seeing dampened business was Hard Rock Northern Indiana<\/strong>, down 2% to $36 million. The biggest gainer was southerly Belterra Resort<\/strong>, leaping 14% to $6 million. Horseshoe Hammond <\/strong>(above<\/em>) made $18.5 million (2.5%), apparently drawing some business off Hard Rock and Ameristar East Chicago<\/strong>, which fell 12% to $12 million, the worst reversal in the Hoosier State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rounding out the northern tier, Blue Chip<\/strong> was up 3.5% to $9 million. Now that the Lege looks very likely to put a casino in or near Fort Wayne<\/strong>, the Indianapolis<\/strong>-area racinos can heave a sigh of relief. Horseshoe Indianapolis<\/strong> jumped 7.5% to $27 million and Harrah’s Hoosier Park<\/strong> was up to $20 million (6%). The casino-to-be-moved, Rising Star<\/strong>, rose 6% to $3.5 million while Caesars Southern Indiana<\/strong> fell 8% to $18.5 million. Bally’s Evansville <\/strong>was up 4% ($13.5 million) and French Lick Resort <\/strong>was down 6% to $5 million. Flat at $11.5 million was Hollywood Lawrenceburg<\/strong> and Terre Haute Casino<\/strong> was up 3.5% to a robust $10.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sports books held at a plump 9.5%, making for $49 million in win off $523.5 million in handle. FanDuel<\/strong> bested DraftKings<\/strong>, $19 million to $15 million. theScore<\/strong> and Fanatics Sportsbook <\/strong>split $4 million from a shared skin, and BetMGM<\/strong> did $2.5 million by its lonesome. BetRivers <\/strong>and Bet365<\/strong> also split $4 million, and Caesars Sportsbook<\/strong> brought in $2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garden State gamblers defied terrible weather to patronize Atlantic City casinos, where receipts were up 1.5% (helped by an extra weekend day last month). Tables were a bit slow, down 3%, but slots were up 3.5%. Borgata was tops with $56.5 million despite a 6% slump. Hard Rock Atlantic City leapt 21% to $46 million, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83928,"featured_media":907788,"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\/2026\/02\/8a1c6064-e5ac-404d-a831-8fa4085aaa441-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1387&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907787"}],"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=907787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907799,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907787\/revisions\/907799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}