US casinos match best quarter ever; post-COVID hopes rise

America’s commercial casinos matched their best quarter ever in the first three months of this year, as customers continued returning amid the COVID-19 pandemic and internet and sports betting money helped boost revenue numbers

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- America's commercial casinos matched their best quarter ever in the first three months of this year, as customers continued returning amid the COVID-19 pandemic and internet and sports betting money helped boost revenue numbers. Figures released Tuesday by the American Gaming Association, the casino industry's national trade group, show the nation's commercial casinos took in over $11.1 billion in the first quarter of this year. That matched the industry's best quarter in history, the third quarter of 2019. The figures do not include tribal casinos. And March was a particularly good month: 12 states reported their highest-ever levels of monthly gambling revenue.