All About Arizona Sports Betting Handle And Revenue

The experts at BetArizona.com have assembled this guide to explain what we mean when we talk about Arizona sports betting revenue and sportsbook handle that the state reports each month.

There is an active market with many online or mobile operators as well as a growing number of retail sports wagering options at brick-and-mortar casinos in the Grand Canyon State.

The handle is the total amount of money bet on sports in the state each month. Sports bettors wager hundreds of millions of dollars monthly often through the use of Arizona sportsbook promos. From the time legal sports betting launched in September 2021 to early 2023, legal, regulated sports bets were placed exclusively with online sportsbooks. Since then, physical casinos have begun taking retail wagers on sports, albeit in much smaller numbers.

The Arizona online gambling revenue on sports refers to the amount that operators have left after they pay out winning bets. From there, bookmakers pay 10% tax to the state on the adjusted gross revenue.

Arizona Sports Betting, October vs. September

Another monthly sports betting total handle record was broken in the Grand Canyon State during October. The 14 sportsbooks that were operational in Arizona accepted $791,243,694 in wagers.

That total trumped the state’s previous high of $759,807,633, set in March 2024. The mobile wagering handle, or wagers placed, hit $784,432,147 in October, eclipsing March’s previous mark of $752,391,015. This was according to an Arizona Department of Gaming report posted on Jan. 8.

In a month-over-month comparison, October’s sports betting totals were up 8.1% from September for total handle, from the $732,099,544 collected during the ninth month. Mobile wagers were up 9% from the $719,627,602 during September.

That surge in wagering handle didn’t translate into gains for Arizona’s bottom line for sports betting revenue or tax dollars, though. Arizona sports betting operators took in $23,572,734 in total adjusted gross event wagering receipts in October, down 40.6% from September’s total of $39,697,413. Mobile revenue fell by the same percentage, from $39,356,952 collected in September to $23,373,908 for the 10th month of 2024.

Taxes in October followed a similar arc, dropping 40.6% for both retail and online operators. October’s total tax collection was $2,353,297, down from $3,962,932 in September. The mobile tax total declined from $3,935,695 in September to of $2,337,391.

As far as total handle market share was concerned, DraftKings Sportsbook reigned supreme for a fifth straight month in Arizona, with a total handle of $258,651,723, finishing ahead of FanDuel Sportsbook ($250,976,756), BetMGM ($98,858,878), Caesars Sportsbook ($43,400,845) and bet365 ($37,681,927).

Also see our story about how Arizona pushed the U.S. total to a new national sports betting record for handle in October.

Arizona Mobile Sports Betting History