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There seems to be no shortage of cutting-edge innovation popping up in the New Jersey online sportsbook betting market recently.

The September 2020 sports betting handle record for New Jersey didn’t last long. This week the Garden State released their sports betting numbers for October and the numbers easily surpassed September’s mark.

New Jersey has welcomed its latest online sportsbook with Freehold Raceway joining the ever-expanding number of venues where you can place a legal sports wager in the Garden State. Online sports bettors in New Jersey shouldn’t have too long to wait for an online sportsbook either.

New Jersey sports bettors can breathe easy after leading sportsbooks reported that all customer data is in place after a cyber attack on the state’s sports wagering industry. Sports data provider, Stats Perform recently went down during Saturday college football action.

New Jersey sports bettors just love FanDuel, whether it’s the online sportsbook or the brick-and-mortar sportsbook at The Meadowlands Racetrack. Now they will have another option for placing all their sporting wagers with FanDuel.

Is New Jersey on the way to becoming the first U.S. state to cross the $1 billion barrier in sports wagering handle? After smashing Nevada’s previous nationwide sports betting handle record of $614.1 million in August with a $668.7 million handle, the Garden State took it up another notch in September breaking into uncharted sports betting territory with a $748.1 million result. It was a new monthly record for the legal U.S. sports betting industry as a whole, defeating the previous month’s record by another 12%.

A Florida man who recently placed $3 million with DraftKings in parlay wagers in New Jersey has had betting account frozen after it was discovered that the bets were placed outside the state lines of the Garden State.

A bill calling for a state wide referendum in New Jersey has been amended to make provisions for ‘all college sports betting’, significantly expanding the scope of the bill originally lodged with lawmakers to lift New Jersey’s current college sports betting options.

New Jersey continues to defy the odds and set month-on-month betting handle records. After smashing the nationwide sports betting handle record in August 2020 with $668.7 million, the Garden State has now put the once thought untouchable $1 billion of handle within reach by recording a monster $748.6 million of handle for September.

The lawmakers of New Jersey have moved quickly in attempt open up the Garden State’s restrictive college sports betting laws a mere day after being awarded one of March Madness’ regional host sites for the 2025 version of the prestigious college basketball tournament.