After needing 44 months to reach $100 billion in nationwide sports wagering handle, it took just eight more to get halfway from there to $200 billion.
New Jersey’s $546.8 million handle reported Friday pushed the overall national total above $150 billion, dating back to the first wagers placed in June 2018 when state-by-state wagering outside Nevada became legal. Back then, it was only New Jersey, Nevada, and Delaware taking action. A person can now place a legal wager in nearly two-thirds of the states in the country, and on Sept. 1, Kansas became the 27th jurisdiction (including Washington, D.C.) to launch commercial wagering.
There have been many factors big and small that have led to reaching $150 billion in handle. Mobile wagering is the largest factor, and its availability in nearly every state that conducts commercial betting has led to mainstream acceptance. Nearly all of the most populous states with sports betting have access to remote registration – New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and New York among them – and the Empire State is probably the best example of that impact with more than $10 billion in wagers accepted in just eight months of online betting.
Here at', we have been diligently tracking state-by-state handle and revenue since late 2019 and are pleased to introduce a new feature to that page: a month-by-month national summary of handle and revenue that goes back to those first days in June 2018 and runs through the current reporting month of August 2022 to include the Garden State’s latest entry.