Online sports betting revenues were just $40,000 shy of February levels last month as Iowa’s regulated market continued its strong recovery.
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Bookmakers in the state collectively made GGR of $1.32m in July, double June’s figure and coming close to the $1.37m in GGR of February, the last month before Covid-19 sporting cancellations began to impact the market.
Retail GGR actually exceeded February’s total by some way, with July’s $0.9m a huge jump on the last month before lockdown kicked in, when bookies had been in negative territory with GGR of -$0.6m.
However, the positive revenue figures have not yet been matched by handle and on this front the market still has some way to go before it reaches pre-Covid-19 levels.
Punters placed bets worth $17.8m in July, an impressive 53.4% rise on June’s turnover, but still less than half the bets placed in February.
Similarly, in retail handle increased to $5.1m last month, a 363% rise on June but still an almost 75% drop on February.
With some of the state’s big retail players not yet having online offerings, the reopening of land-based casinos in June kick-started a rebalancing of operators’ overall market shares and this continued last month.
While William Hill-partnered Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino remains the market leader, its share of the combined online and retail market fell to 23.5% last month, a significant drop on June’s 33.4% but an even bigger fall on May’s 49.1%.
Penn National Gaming’s Ameristar last month returned to form, taking second place with 10.7% of the market. This put it roughly back in line with its market share prior to the closure of land-based casinos in March.
Its success was largely at the expense of DraftKings partner Wild Rose Jefferson, which fell into third place with a market share of 7.3%. Though this was a big drop from its 18.4% share in June, it was largely in line with its market shares of the preceding three months.
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