By 2014, several casinos reached the end of the road. The 12 casinos in play in 2006 fell to 7 by 2020, the result of fierce competition from Pennsylvania.
began as one by one casinos opened up across its borders with the Delaware River. But for some reason, Delaware didn’t seem to be much in the way of real competition.īy 2007, the slide in A.C. In 2006, when New Jersey gaming entities last crossed $5.2 billion, casinos in Pennsylvania had not yet launched, so Atlantic City had the market east of Las Vegas sewed up-outside of Delaware, of course.
New Jersey reached a milestone for 2022 when it brought in $5.21 billion in gambling revenue, equaling the state’s previous high reached in 2006, according to the Associated Press.
