The month of May 2022 saw commercial land-based casinos, sportsbooks, and online casinos generating GGR of US$5.03bn, making May 2022 the best ever May and the second-highest ever monthly total in history. This was up 7.9% on May 2021.
Slots and tables generated US$4.13bn, an increase of 1.4% on May 2021, making it the third-highest monthly total ever for slots and tables. Table revenue increased 10.5% cent to US$873.9m with slot revenue down 0.1% at US$2.94bn.
Retail and online sportsbooks generated US$487.5m in May, up 78.2% from 2021. Online gaming, which is currently allowed in Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, generated US$406.4m in May, up 30.9%.
Five months, only four states are lagging behind what they generated for the first five months of 2021. These were the District of Columbia, which was down 21.2%, Kansas, which was down 0.8%, Mississippi, down 2.5%, and South Dakota, down 1.9%.
For the year so far, slot and table GGR has hit US$19.7bn, 13.9% up from the same period of 2021. Sports betting revenue has reached US$2.64bn, marking an increase of 73.5% ahead. Online gaming for the first five months hit US$2.03bn, up 45.6% from 2021.
Source: GMB
