New York’s mobile sportsbooks reached a milestone in Week 6 of the NFL season, keeping 10.3% of wagers, their first double-digit hold of the football season, according to New York State Gaming Commission data.
Operators won $63.3 million in gross gaming revenue on a $615.1 million handle during the week ending Oct. 18. Revenue rose from $52.1 million the previous week.
The $63.3 million was the highest weekly revenue since the week ending July 12, when operators won $66.0 million. The 10.3% hold was the highest since the week ending Aug. 16.
Handle rose 5.8% from the prior week. It ranks as the fifth-largest weekly total since New York launched mobile sports betting and marks the eighth time wagers have topped $600 million in a week.
The gain is sharper against last year. In the week ending Oct. 19, 2025, operators took $564.3 million in wagers and won $32.5 million, a 5.8% hold. This year’s handle was up 9%, and revenue nearly doubled.
FanDuel produced the most revenue, winning $27.3 million on $226.5 million in wagers, a 12.1% hold. That was about 37% of statewide handle and 43% of revenue. DraftKings won $20.9 million on $208.5 million, a 10% hold.
Fanatics won $5.8 million on $68.4 million, an 8.5% hold. BetMGM won $4.1 million on $53.2 million (7.7% hold), and Caesars won $3.1 million on $37.5 million (8.2% hold). theScore Bet posted a 15% hold on $7.9 million, Bally Bet a 14% hold on $2.5 million, and BetRivers a 5.7% hold on more than $10 million.
Hold is the share of wagers sportsbooks keep as revenue, and it can swing widely from week to week based on game results. New York taxes mobile sports wagering gross gaming revenue at 51%, which would put the state’s share of the week’s revenue at roughly $32.3 million.
Results can cut the other way. The State Comptroller’s September report said mobile betting handle rose more than 36% in June. Still, gross gaming revenue fell nearly 44% year over year after the Knicks won the NBA championship as underdogs. In the first two weeks of June, operators posted a net loss of $14.4 million.
Since mobile betting launched in January 2022, more than $91.2 billion has been wagered through the end of the 2026 fiscal year, producing $8.3 billion in gross gaming revenue. A joint report from the commission and the Office of Addiction Services and Supports counted 7.2 million unique mobile accounts in 2025, with an average of $3,500 wagered per account.
Mobile sports wagering generated $1.3 billion in state tax revenue in the 2026 fiscal year, making it the state’s second-largest source of gaming revenue behind the lottery, according to the comptroller.
Through 30 weeks of the commission’s 2026-27 fiscal year, mobile handle totals $14.80 billion and revenue is $1.31 billion. That compares with $13.93 billion in handle and $1.32 billion in revenue over the same stretch last year, a 6.2% increase in handle with revenue roughly flat.
