The legalization of sports betting in New Jersey will produce countless winners — and losers — but no one in the city was more victorious on Thursday than Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Atlantic City’s most profitable casino made history by being the first in the resort to offer sports betting and industry experts said that was not by accident.
Bob Ambrose, a professor of casino management at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a gaming consultant, said the 15-year-old property owned by MGM Resorts International has a reputation for being “ahead of the curve.”
He said he “would have been disappointed” if the casino hotel had not been first in line to offer the highly anticipated gaming amenity in Atlantic City. “Borgata has always been a front-runner when it comes to what’s next in the industry,” Ambrose said Friday. “They have a history of visionary thinking, so it’s not surprising.”