Dinner date! This gift card lets you dine at Planet Hollywood, Bertucci’s, and more, now starting at $20.A gambler touches the screen of a slot machine at Harrah's casino in Atlantic City N.J., Sept. 29, 2023. Figures released, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, show Atlantic City's casinos, their online partners and horse tracks that take sports bets won over $526 million in March, a month in which New Jersey's internet gambling market set yet another monthly record at $197 million.
Mark Giannantonio, president of Atlantic City's Resorts casino and of the Casino Association of New Jersey, said his city has “a two-year window” to prepare itself for the new competition from its northern neighbor. “Competition is a good thing,” she said. “The competition from New York City will be a motivation to step up.”
“Casino executives keep making the same discredited claims and are promoting a false compromise that will only continue to force us, their own employees, to breathe toxic air at our jobs every day," said Lamont White, a Borgata dealer and a leader of the employee non-smoking movement.
But Rob Norton, president of Cordish Gaming Group and the Live! casinos, including properties in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Florida, said internet casino gambling has had a detrimental effect on brick-and-mortar casinos.