August iGaming Revenue Grows in PA, Michigan and New Jersey

Online casinos in Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey all grew in August. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board says casino games played online in Pennsylvania brought in $245,699,011, up 6.25% on a year earlier, and the Michigan Gaming Control Board reported $303.0 million in iGaming gross receipts.

New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement put internet gaming win at $259.3 million, up 4.4%. The pattern held in every state. Online casino went up in all three, and sportsbook revenue fell in all three.

Online Slots Carry Pennsylvania’s Soft Month

Pennsylvania’s total gaming revenue fell 2.16% to $569,738,545, so iGaming did the heavy lifting. Online Slots made $195,185,759, up 8.84%, while online table games slipped 2.57% to $48,139,401 and online poker fell 5.15% to $2,373,851.

The retail side had a rough month. Retail Slots were close to flat, down 1.26% to $213,901,476, but retail table games revenue dropped 18.09% to $66,394,832, and sports wagering revenue fell 19.92% to $39,361,628 even though handle was down only 3.29%. That looks more like a bad hold month for the books than bettors walking away.

Big Gains, Two Collapses and One Exit

Hollywood Casino at Penn National led the online rankings with $95,392,213, up 11.60%, ahead of Valley Forge on $67,458,374. Mohegan Pennsylvania grew its online revenue 71.42% and Bally’s Pennsylvania 54.85%. Live! Casino Philadelphia fell 49.81% and Wind Creek Bethlehem 45.37%.

Mount Airy Casino Resort shows no online revenue at all this year after $2,735,423 last August, with the board noting it ceased offering internet gaming in August. Happy Valley Casino, which opened in April 2026, appears in the statewide table for the first time.

Michigan Grows Fastest While Its Sportsbooks Stall

Michigan online casinos posted the biggest year-on-year jump, though Michigan measures it on the taxable figure rather than gross win. Operators reported $337.6 million in combined iGaming and online sports betting gross receipts, down 2.5% from July. Adjusted gross receipts, the taxable figure after promotions, came to $290.8 million for iGaming, up 0.1% on July and 17.6% on August 2025.

Online sports betting went the other way. Gross receipts were $34.6 million. Adjusted gross receipts fell 29.3% year-on-year to $24.2 million, and handle dropped 7.0% from July to $330.5 million.

Where Michigan’s Online Money Goes

Operators paid $61.2 million in iGaming taxes and fees to the state in August, against just $1.6 million from online sports betting. The three Detroit casinos paid another $13.4 million in iGaming taxes and fees to the city, and tribal operators reported $8.5 million in payments to their governing bodies.

The board lists 15 authorized operators. All 15 offer iGaming, while 13 of them run sportsbooks, so the casino side pays almost all of Michigan’s online tax bill.

New Jersey’s Borgata Exception

New Jersey’s iGaming win of $259,308,212 compared with $248,372,823 a year earlier, and it’s up 13.2% year-to-date at $2.13 billion. In-person casino win fell 5.5% to $294.9 million, and Borgata was the only one of the nine Atlantic City casinos to grow, with total casino win up 6.4% to $85,372,197.

Sports wagering revenue fell 25.0% to $61.4 million, and total gaming revenue across the casinos, racetracks and their partners fell 4.1% to $615.7 million. Online growth was not enough to cover the drop everywhere else. The DGE put the sportsbook slide down mainly to a later start to the fall sports calendar, college football included, and a lower overall win percentage.

FanDuel Still Leads the Online Table

Among the real-money online casinos in the state, FanDuel won $56,727,028, down 0.7%. DraftKings won $43,543,184, down 7.5%, and BetMGM grew 7.8% to $35,107,413. The smaller brands did the growing. BetFanatics rose 30.7% and Bet365 46.6%.

New Jersey’s internet gaming taxes came to $57,709,297 for the month, with the state charging a 19.75% gross revenue tax on online win. In Pennsylvania, online casino games generated $113,478,607 in tax in August, more than the $108,082,835 raised from the state’s 24,520 retail slot machines.