
Total win was $226,000, up from a loss of $229,000 last year.ĭelaware’s three casinos reported $1.4 million in straight wagers with $132,000 in revenue. That’s down from $2.1 million bet last year, though the Lottery turned a profit in 2021. Delaware’s handle dips, but positive holdĭelaware took a total of $1.9 million in bets this year, according to Delaware Lottery Director Vernon Kirk. That hold could be boosted by overconfident Kansas City Chiefs fans crossing into Illinois from neighboring Missouri to place their bets. Sportsbooks made $7.7 million in revenue, good for an atypical 16.8% hold. The legal IL sports betting market took $45.6 million in handle with 93.7% of all wagers coming online. That caught many off-guard considering the state’s gaming regulator is usually about two months behind others reporting sportsbook stats. Surprisingly, Illinois was the first state to report Super Bowl stats.

Illinois takes vast majority of action online Revenue was $9.4 million for a 17.5% hold. Pennsylvania’s sportsbooks reported $53.6 million, up nearly 75% from 2020. Sports betting revenue was $11.3 million, good for a 9.6% hold.Įven though online Pennsylvania sports betting transactions over Super Bowl weekend outpaced New Jersey by about 14%, PA’s handle was less than half of New Jersey’s. New Jersey‘s 12 retail and 21 online sportsbooks took $117.4 million in bets on the game, up 116% over last year’s total. Handle fell 12% with revenue down 33% compared to 2020. Nevada’s sportsbooks took $136.1 million in bets on the game, holding 9.2% for $12.6 million in revenue. *Denotes preliminary results Nevada leads Super Bowl betting handleĮven with travel and casino occupancy limited by the coronavirus pandemic, Nevada looks like it will again lead states in Super Bowl handle. That number could have been higher had multiple sportsbooks not struggled with outages before and during the game. There were seven additional legal jurisdictions taking bets this year, which led to more than three times the online betting transactions over Super Bowl weekend compared to last year. PlayUSA expects more than $500 million in legal US Super Bowl bets this year.
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Legal betting states reported more than $280 million in handle last year with the full US estimated around $300 million.
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So far, handle from 16 states plus Washington DC reporting full or preliminary results on Super Bowl 55 totaled $486.4 million. Watch The Weeknd’s Super Bowl performance in full below.We’re still waiting on more states to report, but legal Super Bowl betting already topped 2020‘s total. The Weeknd was famously snubbed by the Grammys recently, speaking of his dismay at the “corrupt” awards ceremony while expressing disbelief that he was asked to prepare a performance despite his lack of nomination.

He added: “We’ve been really focusing on dialing in on the fans at home and making performances a cinematic experience, and we want to do that with the Super Bowl.” Even to this day with the label, it’s like, ‘Guys, I will put my own money into this music video. “I don’t know what it feels like to lose money if I never had it. “I didn’t know what having money really felt like,” Tesfaye is quoted as saying. In a cover story interview with Billboard, the Canadian R&B star’s manager confirmed that Abel Tesfaye had supplemented the Super Bowl budget with his own money (around $7 million) to make sure the performance was just right.

At the 2021 Super Bowl LV Pepsi Halftime Show, The Weeknd’s 12-minute appearance saw him performing tracks from ‘After Hours’ in front of a set modelled on the city in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis as well as a brightly-lit hall of mirrors.
