As US sports bets boom, internet gambling is slow to expand

Speaking Wednesday at the East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City, industry executives and legislators from gambling states offered various explanations for why internet gambling has yet to expand beyond a handful of eastern states. Internet gambling is legal in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia; Nevada offers online poker but not casino games. Internet gambling brought in $1.6 billion in New Jersey in 2022, up more than 21% from a year earlier. That should give internet gambling another look in many places, they said. Siobhan Lane, CEO of Gaming for Light & Wonder, said she is optimistic about the likely expansion of internet gambling.