NJ Casinos Paid Out More Jackpots This Year

Only a brand’s resurgence like Atlantic City can justify its buzz at the moment. For the record, it offers more than a booming Boardwalk.

According to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement’s (DGE) monthly jackpot report, its an indicator of its consistency.

The earning opportunities this year at Atlantic City Casinos have improved immeasurably compared to 2017, let alone throughout its 3 years of existence. The first 8 months of 2018 being remarkable of all time for payouts through jackpots.

All credits supposed to go where its due, because aside from being guaranteed a positive outcome by the DGE reports jackpots, it is also responsible for it by applying the change.

The Best Casino Jackpots in New Jersey

As from Aug. 15, 2018, it couldn’t have been a great time to be a casino gambler, since online jackpots and slots payouts tallied up to $22 million.

When observing the trajectory especially in 2016, we cannot help but notice the gradual increase worth of jackpots amounting to $21.9 million that reached casino player’s pockets. Whereas the AC casinos paid out a million dollar less in 2015.

Meanwhile, approximately $3 million in jackpots got paid out to the resort’s nine casino properties for their 30-day period ending on Aug. 15.

Previously, the state regulators collected and released data using jackpot prizes of $75,000 or more. Currently, in 2018, it reported on prizes of $50,000 or more.

The revelation becomes apparent that these are superficial numbers, once you discover that the jackpot total is just $15,1 million when excluding jackpots of less than $75,000 from the overall results.

Either way, with this figure the casinos don’t lose the plot on their quest to precede the previous year’s jackpot payouts.

There are NJ casinos ahead with writing more checks than others

Eventually, the highest check was ever written this year till date was by Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City, also the only seven-figure payday at an amount of $1.67 million, a jackpot accomplished by a player on the 25-cent Wheel of Fortune Pink Diamond machine.

There were 224 jackpots of more than $50,000 reported, and Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa wrote the most checks (56) of any Atlantic City casino. It delivered a whopping $5.197 million back to its customers.

Here are how the other Atlantic City casinos fared:

• Caesars Atlantic City with 41 jackpots
• Tropicana Atlantic City with 22 jackpots
• Golden Nugget Atlantic City with 16 jackpots
• Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City with 16 jackpots
• Resorts Casino Hotel with eight jackpots
• Bally’s Atlantic City with seven jackpots

June 28, saw the launch of Hard Rock Hotel & Atlantic City Casino and Ocean Resort Casino. As Ocean Resort awaits to inaugurate its first massive check, Hard Rock, on the other hand, paid out two jackpots of more than $50,000 thereafter.

NJ Online Casinos Are Also Paying Out

Harrah’s online casino made their significant mark by signing off the second-largest check of this year so far going at a whopping $687,785, earned by a player who ventured on the Gods of the Gold virtual slot machine.

It also should be acknowledged that out of 224 total jackpots of $50,000 or more, NJ online casinos awarded 55 of them.

Naturally, Golden Nugget as a famously leading online casino dominantly bestowed most online jackpots of $50,000 or more with 17. Betfair NJ online casino and Sugarhouse playing its partner role, logged for another 20, with 12 and 8 respectively.

Jackpots are mainly paid out by:

• PlayMGM with eight jackpots
• Borgata Casino online with four jackpots
• Caesars online with two jackpots
• Mohegan Sun with two jackpots

These sites each paid out one online casino jackpot of more than $50,000:

• WSOP.com NJ
• Harrah’s online casino
• Tropicana online casino
• Pala Casino

The upshot is that player’s fish where the fishes are, having Borgata leading as a land-based and Golden Nugget is the leading online casino. Both operators preserving their category by writing the most checks of more than $50,000.

It’s an irons-sharpen-irons dynamic system which naturally builds the gambling community, developing chances of winning.