The Mississippi Gaming Commission has released its official report for the first full month of August sports betting, and the state took in $22.6 million in handle with gross taxable revenue of $644,489 up 6%.

The handle includes futures bets made, while the taxable revenue does not include futures bets, many of which are not yet decided.

Mississippi’s coastal casinos, which include sportsbooks from Bay St. Louis to the Biloxi area, took in the most amount of bets, with $4,363,799, while the most bets were made on baseball, followed by football and parlay cards. The report runs from Aug. 1-31, and does not include the figures through Labor Day weekend.

In terms of breakdown, Mississippi sportsbooks took $3,326,580 bets on baseball, $2,388,273 on football and $1,518,973.46 on sports parlay cards. There were also about $116,000 worth of basketball bets and $$346,000 on other sports made.

Expect football to be king in September – when you add in the first weekend of college football games, the handle was $9.8 million through Sept. 3, which means state sportsbooks took in about $3.5 million in bets over the Labor Day weekend. The year-to-date handle through Sept. 8 was $16.3 million.