ATLANTIC CITY - New Jersey’s casino and sports betting revenue more than doubled in March compared from year ago — but that’s because the emerging pandemic shut down casinos for the second half of the month last year.Figures released Friday by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement show the nine casinos and three horse tracks that offer sports betting won $359.2 million in March.That’s an increase of nearly 120%, but no one in the industry is dancing in the streets just yet.
The biggest reason for the statistical increase is the fact that the casinos and tracks were open for a full month this March; last year, Gov.