Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAR 2022年3月 亞博匯 84 IN FOCUS September onwards it took a giant leap forward. In September, the National Football League season began without the many COVID-19 restrictions that plagued the 2020/21 season, and as a consequence handle jumped by around US$2 billion a month. Betting on professional football highlighted the importance of online, remote and mobile sports betting. Remote betting accounts for 90% of the total wagers, so as the legalization of remote betting has spread, both handle and GGR have grown dramatically. The other new growth segment was iGaming, up from virtually zero in 2018 to US$3.6 billion in 2021. Although sports betting and iGaming were not the only areas of growth, their combined US$7.6 billion accounts for a significant portion of the total growth. In fact, in those states with both mobile sports betting and other forms of iGaming, casinos revenues were either flat or declined. This highlights another trend that is significant – in 2021, fewer people went to a casino than in the pre-pandemic years, and in some months there was decline even compared to 2020. In every state that measures visitation therewas a decrease, sometimes as much as 20%, when compared The expansion of sports betting contributed to the growth in US gaming revenues in 2021. 體育博彩的擴張推動了 2021年美國博彩收入的增 長。