March Madness Pushes New Jersey Sportsbooks to Record Month

March Madness Pushes New Jersey Sportsbooks to Record Month. http://bit.ly/2UWXmQa

New Jersey’s online and retail sportsbooks scored a record win and near-record monthly handle in March as the industry crossed the $2 billion mark in bets since legalization. The spike was fueled overwhelmingly by the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament... http://bit.ly/2UWXmQa

I am sure Vegas books did pretty well too, but this shows what geography can mean to a casino. The early headlines made by the online gambling undoubted helped the online sportsbooks.

It is their first year in business. "Record Month" is kind of meaningless until we get a baseline.

I find it interesting people are interested in betting basketball at all, because I find basketball stupid, just a lot of people walking and jumping. Football is a fun sport to watch, betting is simple, the game is simpler to think you understand, and I would have thought regular season or playoffs would have been better. Maybe there are more sports games going on now than in the fall where people can bet, idk.

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I find it interesting people are interested in betting basketball at all, because I find basketball stupid, just a lot of people walking and jumping. Football is a fun sport to watch, betting is simple, the game is simpler to think you understand, and I would have thought regular season or playoffs would have been better. Maybe there are more sports games going on now than in the fall where people can bet, idk.

Its all about the money, brother. People are looking for ways to put duckets in their pockets. Of course, football is more exciting , but if you put out a spread on an ant race, I guarantee you people will start reading up on ants!