KEY TAKEAWAYS
Key Numbers
Online poker is regulated in only a handful of U.S. states, and its revenue is small next to online casino games and sports betting. Two regulators publish enough detail to measure it: the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. This page compiles their 2025 figures, with the month-by-month Pennsylvania series and New Jersey’s annual and December results.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s monthly reports show online poker revenue of $29,794,794 for the twelve months of 2025, an average of about $2.48 million a month. New Jersey reported $30,268,221 of peer-to-peer win for 2025, which is 6.3% above the $28,467,466 reported for 2024. The two annual totals are close, although the states measure them differently, as explained below.
In Pennsylvania, revenue for July to December 2025 was $14,392,503, up 5.2% on the same six months of 2024, even though December 2025 was lower than December 2024. All amounts are in U.S. dollars and use each regulator’s own definition.
How Each State Reports Online Poker
Poker differs from slots and blackjack because players compete against one another rather than against the house, so a poker room earns its money from a rake (a share of each pot) and from tournament entry fees. Pennsylvania reports this directly: the Gaming Control Board’s interactive gaming report lists non-banking tables (poker) with revenue labeled rake and tournament fees, and its footnotes describe non-banking table games as those in which a player competes against another player and the casino collects a rake. The board’s press releases show the same amount as iGaming poker revenue, included in total iGaming revenue.
New Jersey reports a category it calls peer-to-peer win inside internet gaming win. The state’s rules define peer-to-peer gaming as “all gaming activity, such as poker, where patrons are competing against each other.” The Division’s reports do not give a separate poker-only total, so this page uses the peer-to-peer line as New Jersey’s closest official measure of online poker, and the label should be read that way throughout. The same rules say win is calculated from amounts wagered and won plus tournament entry fees and rake, so the two states’ figures are similar in spirit but not identical in construction.
Both amounts are revenue to the casino licensees and their partners, not the amounts players deposit or wager, and not profit. Neither state’s figure should be read as the total money played at poker tables, and neither includes live poker rooms.
Pennsylvania Monthly Data for 2025
Table 1 lists Pennsylvania’s statewide online poker revenue for each month of 2025. January to May come from the Gaming Control Board’s fiscal year 2024/2025 interactive gaming report, June from the board’s June 2025 press release, and July to December from the fiscal year 2025/2026 report.
| Month | Poker revenue |
|---|---|
| January | $2,598,295 |
| February | $2,445,679 |
| March | $2,556,800 |
| April | $2,338,087 |
| May | $2,750,831 |
| June | $2,712,599 |
| July | $2,517,687 |
| August | $2,502,873 |
| September | $2,311,202 |
| October | $2,506,693 |
| November | $2,274,652 |
| December | $2,279,396 |
| Total, 2025 | $29,794,794 |
The highest month was May 2025 at $2,750,831, followed by June at $2,712,599, and the lowest was November at $2,274,652, a difference of $476,179 between the best and worst months. The first six months of 2025 totaled $15,402,291 against $14,392,503 for the last six, so revenue was weaker in the second half of the year even though it was higher than in the second half of 2024.
New Jersey Data and Poker’s Share
New Jersey’s December 2025 release gives the annual and December figures for peer-to-peer win and for total internet gaming win, which makes it possible to calculate poker’s share of the internet gaming total. Table 3 shows the results.
| Measure | 2025 | 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peer-to-peer win, full year | $30,268,221 | $28,467,466 | +6.3% |
| Internet gaming win, full year | $2,911,241,318 | $2,387,164,172 | +22.0% |
| Peer-to-peer share of internet gaming win | 1.04% | 1.19% | −0.15 pp |
| Peer-to-peer win, December | $2,248,487 | $2,437,958 | −7.8% |
where: poker revenue is the peer-to-peer win and total internet gaming revenue is internet gaming win, which includes peer-to-peer win. For New Jersey in 2025, $30,268,221 ÷ $2,911,241,318 gives 1.04%, down from 1.19% in 2024 because internet gaming win grew 22.0% while peer-to-peer win grew 6.3%. In Pennsylvania the same calculation for 2025 gives $29,794,794 ÷ $2,775,554,529, or 1.07%; for December alone, poker was 0.88% of iGaming revenue in 2025, against 1.11% in December 2024.
Poker therefore accounts for roughly one dollar in every hundred of online casino-type revenue in both states, and in the periods compared here that share fell as online slots and table games grew faster.
Comparison With 2024
A full-year comparison for Pennsylvania would need every month of 2024, and the sources used here cover only July to December 2024. Table 2 therefore compares those six months, together with the June figures cited below.
| Month | 2025 | 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| July | $2,517,687 | $2,295,672 | +9.7% |
| August | $2,502,873 | $2,223,878 | +12.5% |
| September | $2,311,202 | $2,210,872 | +4.5% |
| October | $2,506,693 | $2,206,682 | +13.6% |
| November | $2,274,652 | $2,275,423 | −0.03% |
| December | $2,279,396 | $2,473,179 | −7.8% |
| July–December | $14,392,503 | $13,685,706 | +5.2% |
Four of the six months were higher than a year earlier, with October up 13.6% and August up 12.5%, while November was effectively unchanged at −0.03% and December was down 7.8%. The Gaming Control Board’s June 2025 release also reported iGaming poker revenue of $2,712,599 for June 2025 against $2,202,360 for June 2024, an increase of 23.2%.
In New Jersey the full-year comparison is available: 2025 peer-to-peer win was $1,800,755 higher than in 2024, a gain of 6.3%, though December 2025 was 7.8% below December 2024. The percent change formula is the same one used throughout this page:
where: current and prior are the same measure for two periods. For New Jersey, ($30,268,221 − $28,467,466) ÷ $28,467,466 gives 6.3%. Pennsylvania’s six-month change is ($14,392,503 − $13,685,706) ÷ $13,685,706, or 5.2%.
The Pennsylvania total of $29,794,794 and the New Jersey total of $30,268,221 differ by $473,427, or about 1.6%, but they should be treated as two separate figures rather than added or ranked against each other, because the states define and report them differently.
Methodology & Limitations
Datasets: Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board monthly interactive gaming reports for fiscal years 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 (statewide grand total row for non-banking tables, poker, rake and tournament fees); the board’s press releases for June 2025, December 2025 and calendar year 2025; and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement December 2025 release, plus the Division’s rule definition of peer-to-peer gaming. All were accessed in October 2026.
Calculations: the Pennsylvania 2025 total is the sum of the twelve monthly figures in Table 1. The July to December total is the sum of six monthly values for each year. Poker share is poker revenue divided by total iGaming revenue (Pennsylvania) or internet gaming win (New Jersey); Pennsylvania’s calendar 2025 iGaming total of $2,775,554,529 is from the board’s year-end release. Percent changes follow the formula above, and percentage-point differences are subtractions of shares.
Limitations: the Pennsylvania figures for January to May 2025 come from a report version published in June 2025, and the board notes that amended returns can revise previously published statistics, so the 2025 total could differ slightly in later versions. No full-year 2024 comparison is shown for Pennsylvania. New Jersey’s peer-to-peer line is not stated by the Division to be poker alone, and its definition differs from Pennsylvania’s rake-and-fees measure. Other states with regulated online poker report their results in different formats, and no figure for them is given here, because a poker-only total could not be confirmed at a primary source for this page.
Key Figures at a Glance
| Figure | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania online poker revenue | $29,794,794 | Calendar year 2025 |
| Pennsylvania, July–December change | +5.2% ($14,392,503) | 2025 vs 2024 |
| Pennsylvania highest month | $2,750,831 (May) | 2025 |
| Pennsylvania poker share of iGaming | 1.07% | Calendar year 2025 |
| New Jersey peer-to-peer win | $30,268,221 (+6.3%) | Calendar year 2025 |
| New Jersey share of internet gaming win | 1.04% | Calendar year 2025 |
Derived values such as shares and percent changes are calculated from the published figures, with the formulas shown above.
Related Data
For live tournament figures, see the compiled results in WSOP Main Event entries and prize pools. Pennsylvania’s wider revenue mix is set out in Pennsylvania gambling revenue by type, and online casino revenue in both states is compared in online casino revenue per resident.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sources & References
- Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board — Monthly Interactive Gaming Report Summary, fiscal year 2024/2025 (version through May 2025; accessed October 2026)
- Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board — Monthly Interactive Gaming Report Summary, fiscal year 2025/2026 (version through February 2026; accessed October 2026)
- Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board — press release: June 2025 revenue (July 17, 2025; accessed October 2026)
- Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board — press release: December 2025 revenue (January 20, 2026; accessed October 2026)
- Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board — press release: record gaming revenue for 2025 (January 21, 2026; accessed October 2026)
- New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement — DGE Announces December 2025 Gaming Revenue Results (January 16, 2026; accessed October 2026)
- New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement — N.J.A.C. 13:69O, definitions of peer-to-peer gaming (accessed October 2026)
