Portuguese regulator Serviço Regulação e Inspeção de Jogosdo Turismo de Portugal (SRIJ) reported a 23.6% year-on-year increase in online gambling revenue in the first quarter of 2022.
Revenues for the three months to the end of March were € 158.6 million (£ 135.3 million / $ 161.7 million), up from € 128.3 million in the year-ago quarter.
Online casino revenue for the quarter was € 80.9 million, up 37.6% from € 58.8 million in the first quarter of 2021, and online sports betting revenue was also up 11.8% to € 77.70 million.
Looking at player spending, consumers bet a total of € 2.21 billion at online casinos in three months, up 37.3% year-on-year, while online sports bets fell 12.8% to € 369.4 million. became.
Of the total amount bet on online casinos, when categorizing players’ gambling habits, 78.1% were slot games, 8.8% were French roulette and 5.1% were blackjack.
When it comes to sports betting, 69.9% of online bets are in soccer, 12.4% in basketball and tennis, and the remaining 5.3% in other sports.
Other outstanding figures for the first quarter were 215,600 new online gambling accounts opened during the period, down 34.6% from last year, but by the end of the first quarter, a total of 118,900 people were in all forms. Self-excluded from regulated online gambling.
In addition, SRIJ said it had blocked access to an additional 71 sites that were operating without approval, and that an additional 82 sites were ordered to cease operations in the country.
Looking at land gambling and revenue for the quarter, it was down 7.2% year-on-year to € 53.9 million.
Of this total, € 43.9 million came from gaming machines, accounting for 81.4% of total quarterly revenue, € 9.4 million from table games and € 663,950 from bingo and poker without a bank account. ..
