Football is back. And so are New York’s mobile sports betting numbers
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The opening weekend of the NFL season brought New York its best week for legal online sports bets since last spring. New Yorkers placed $10.7 billion in online bets and generated gross gaming revenue of $826 million. The state's gross revenue from online betting is 51%, the highest of any state where it's legal. New Jersey is second with a rate of 36%. For the year so far, New york has earned $421.5 million in taxes. Sports betting was legal in New Yorks since 2019. It was previously only available in casinos. Mobile version of it was rolled out in January.
Don Cazentre writes for NYup.com, syracuse. com and The Post-Standard.