- Delaware’s floors won $3,142,732 at the tables over 27 days in July and the websites won $3,267,438 over 31.
- Retail table win fell 21.5% year over year in July while online table win rose 31.8%.
- The pits out-earned the websites in every month of fiscal 2026, $49.0 million to $34.6 million.
- Online table players wagered $137.5 million in July and the house kept 2.38% of it.
DOVER, Del. – Table game win on Delaware’s three casino floors fell 21.5% year over year in July, to $3,142,732, while the same licensees’ online tables grew 31.8%, to $3,267,438.
The floor figure covers the July accounting period in the Delaware Lottery’s table games proceeds records, which ran July 1 through July 27. The same 27 days a year earlier produced $4,004,547 at the tables, so the pits gave back $861,815 of table win, a 21.5% decline.
The two reports do not cover the same days. The Lottery books retail gaming in four-week and five-week accounting periods but reports internet gaming by calendar month, so July’s online total runs 31 days against the floor’s 27. Per day the pits won about $116,400 and the websites about $105,400, leaving the floor ahead by roughly 10%. A year earlier that daily gap was 85%.
Slot machines held up far better. The Lottery’s video lottery proceeds report puts terminal win at $30,294,160 for the period against $30,820,481 last July, down 1.7%. Combined, the three casinos won $33,436,892, about 4.0% below last July, and tables accounted for 9.4% of it.
Online Tables Never Beat The Floors In Fiscal 2026
In all 12 months of the fiscal year that ended June 30, the pits out-earned the websites, and the full-year gap was not close: $49,023,568 on the floors against $34,629,442 online. The nearest month came in December, when the floors won $3,549,069 and online tables won $3,510,195, a margin of roughly $39,000. Measured per day, July is the tightest the two channels have been.
All three sites run software table games on BetRivers platforms, which is the mechanical reason the channel scales and a pit does not. A software table seats every player logged in at once, while a floor table serves the seats around it and stops earning the moment the dealer taps out.
The online channel also carries the promotional layer the pits never had, and baccarat bonuses come with game-contribution rules that no floor table applies.
Harrington Was The Only Pit That Grew
Delaware Park is still the largest table operation in the state and lost the most in dollars, winning $1,670,150 against $2,105,055 a year earlier, down 20.7%. Bally’s Dover fell hardest in percentage terms, to $811,297 from $1,322,443, a 38.7% decline. Harrington Raceway was the only property to grow, winning $661,285 against $577,049, up 14.6%.
Spread across the 27-day period, that is about $61,900 a day in table win at Delaware Park, $30,000 at Bally’s Dover and $24,500 at Harrington. A pit runs thin on that, because every table it opens has to pay a dealer, a floor supervisor and a share of the surveillance bill before it returns anything.
The money the tables did make stays largely with the operators. Of the $3,142,732 in table win, track commissions took $2,514,186, or 80%, the state took $487,123, or 15.5%, and purses took $141,423. The video lottery split runs the other way, with the state taking 38% of terminal win and the tracks 44%.
$137.5 Million Wagered Online, 2.38% Kept
Delaware’s online tables took $137,511,154 in wagers in July and returned $133,590,740 of it to players, the Lottery’s internet gaming proceeds show. Another $652,976 came off as promotional credits and adjustments, leaving the house $3,267,438, or 2.38% of everything wagered.
That 2.38% is the blended edge across every table game the three sites spread, and it is not a baccarat number. The channel held about 2.0% of the money bet through it over the fiscal year that ended June 30, so a month at 2.38% is a good one for the house rather than a change in how the games are priced.
Baccarat odds sit well under that blend. Banker carries a 1.06% house edge and player 1.24%, and those percentages are the gap between what a winning hand pays and how often it actually comes in. A baccarat player gives up less than half of what the online tables collect on average.
The floor’s hold looks nothing like it. The three pits won $3,142,732 from $15,387,767 in chips bought at the tables, a hold of 20.4%. The 20.4% counts what players carried to the table, not what they bet, because the same chips get wagered again and again before they leave. Online, every wager is counted, so the percentage lands close to the edge itself.
Online slots in the same month held 4.58%, keeping $10,109,588 from $220,933,487 wagered. That is nearly twice the table rate on 61% more action.
The Reports Do Not Break Out Baccarat
Neither filing separates baccarat from the rest of the pit. The Lottery names poker, blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat, Let It Ride, Mississippi Stud, Pai Gow poker and Texas Hold ‘Em among the games its casinos may spread, and describes that as a partial list. Nothing in the July numbers shows how much of the $3.1 million on the floors or the $3.3 million online came off a baccarat table.
What the numbers do establish is the size of the room a Delaware baccarat player is choosing inside: three floors, a combined table win under $120,000 a day, and an online channel now running within about 10% of all three pits put together. What neither report shows is how slowly a baccarat hand moves a bonus, which is where baccarat bonus wagering requirements decide whether the online table is the better room.
The Lottery’s next accounting period runs July 28 through Aug. 31, and those figures post to the same fiscal 2027 proceeds tables.
