New Jersey's online casinos pulled in $274.8 million in September, enough to top the $227.8 million that Atlantic City's nine casino floors collected from in-person gamblers that same month. It marks a 13 percent jump from September 2025 and underscores just how far internet gambling has outpaced the physical casino business in the Garden State.
The figures come from New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement data cited by PlayNJ, which reported that online casino revenue finished roughly $47 million ahead of Atlantic City's brick-and-mortar haul. As WDHA also noted, that online total represented an increase of $31.7 million from the $243.1 million recorded in September 2025, and it nearly matched July's all-time record of $276.9 million, according to DGE figures.
FanDuel Casino kept its grip on the top spot among operators, earning $57.8 million in September, up 2.1 percent year over year. DraftKings Casino followed in second with $53.3 million, a 9.9 percent increase, while BetMGM Casino posted $35.4 million, up 16.7 percent. The gap between FanDuel and DraftKings narrowed to about $4.5 million, down from an $8.2 million spread in September 2025 — a sign the race at the top is tightening.
Fanatics Posts the Biggest Jump, Tropicana Slides
Further down the leaderboard, Fanatics Casino stood out with the steepest growth of any operator earning at least $10 million for the month. Its revenue climbed to $14.7 million, up 187.4 percent from just $5.1 million a year earlier. Borgata's online brand brought in $22 million, up 6 percent, Caesars Palace online earned $20.2 million, up 8.4 percent, and Hard Rock Bet grew 25.5 percent to $17.8 million.
Not every brand rode the wave higher. Tropicana Casino's online revenue sank 45.2 percent to just $1.6 million, and Jackpocket's online revenue fell 36.1 percent to $714,840. Those four leading brands — FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM and Borgata Online — together accounted for roughly 61.3 percent of the state's entire online casino market in September, per the same PlayNJ account.
Atlantic City's Casino Floors Keep Losing Ground
While online wagering surged, Atlantic City's in-person casino business kept slipping. Casino-floor revenue fell 1.3 percent, from $230.7 million in September 2025 to $227.8 million this September, with table-game wins down a sharper 17.6 percent to $49.9 million even as slot-machine revenue rose 4.6 percent to $177.9 million. Borgata still led all Atlantic City properties with $55.7 million in casino wins despite an 11.3 percent year-over-year decline, while Hard Rock brought in $43.5 million, down 4.3 percent, and Ocean Casino Resort grew 7.6 percent to $42.6 million — figures reported by NJBIZ.
Sports betting also struggled, with revenue dropping 14.3 percent to $77 million from $89.8 million a year earlier. Online gaming's growth was strong enough to offset the combined decline of about $15.8 million across casino floors and sports wagering, the outlet's report noted, helping push the state's total gaming revenue up 2.8 percent to $579.6 million for the month. Internet gaming was the only major gaming category that sustained year-over-year growth in September, per NJBIZ.
A Record-Setting Year for Internet Gambling
September's online haul of $274,782,098 ranked as the third-highest monthly online total New Jersey has ever recorded, trailing only July 2026's $276,948,219 and May 2026's $276,262,067, according to USPoker. Online slots, table games and other casino-style offerings alone generated $272.4 million for the month, up 13.2 percent.
Through the first nine months of 2026, online casino revenue has totaled $2.40 billion, up 13.2 percent from $2.12 billion over the same stretch last year, while online gaming taxes collected by the state reached $534.5 million, with $61.1 million of that coming in September alone. Atlantic City's casino-floor revenue, meanwhile, has grown just 1.4 percent to $2.24 billion so far this year, and the state's total gaming revenue across all categories stands at $5.39 billion, up 5.1 percent.
The divergence between booming online wagering and a sluggish casino floor has not gone unnoticed in the industry. One analyst described September, per CDC Gaming, as “one of the worst Septembers in recent history” for in-person gambling in Atlantic City — a blunt assessment that captures just how lopsided the shift toward phones and laptops has become for the state's gaming economy.
