Internet gambling was up 22.6 percent for the month at $20.8 million, compared to the $16.9 million in brought in a year ago. When the Taj Mahal is excluded, the seven surviving casinos saw a revenue increase of nearly 6 percent in April compared to a year ago.įigures released Friday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the casinos won $211.6 million in April. (Wayne Parry/AP)ĪTLANTIC CITY - Atlantic City’s casinos saw their first monthly revenue decline of the year in April, with the amount of money won from gamblers declining by 1.6 percent.īut that figure includes the now-shuttered Trump Taj Mahal casino, which closed in October.
The Taj Mahal went for 4 cents on the dollar when it was sold in March 2017. A worker makes repairs to a facade of the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, N.J.