New Jersey Fines Firms $40K For Sports Betting Violations
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey sports betting regulators have handed out $40,000 in fines to 2 sportsbooks and a tech company for offenses that consisted of taking bets on unapproved occasions, and on video games that had actually already ended.
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In info revealed Monday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement fined DraftKings $20,000. It also levied $10,000 fines on Rush Street Interactive NJ and the sports betting innovation business Kambi.

According to documents launched by the state, Rush Street accepted 16 bets worth $1,523 in Nov. 2021 on a college basketball game between the University of North Carolina-Asheville and Tennessee Tech University after the video game had currently concluded with a UNC triumph.
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Kambi informed the enforcement division that a trader had stopped working to manually get rid of that video game from its sports betting markets, stating it had actually stopped getting messages from its own sports betting data supplier due to a network connectivity error. Kambi said it has updated its standards and re-trained its traders to prevent a reoccurrence.

Kambi, which is based in Malta, did not immediately react to a message seeking comment Monday. Rush Street decreased remark, and DraftKings had no immediate comment Monday. DraftKings stopped utilizing Kambi in 2021.

In March 2022 Rush Street took 7 bets amounting to just under $2,900 on three Magic City Jai Alai video games after the results were already known.

Kambi informed the division it experienced a problem that permitted the bets to be accepted after the video games were over. An explanation of what Kambi did to attend to the situation was blacked out in documents launched by the department.

A month previously Rush Street took 13 wagers worth $8,150 with pre-match odds on a Professional Golf Association match after the occasion had actually already begun. In this case, Kambi informed the division a recently hired trader failed to enter the proper closing time time for bets on the event. The trader and a manager underwent re-training.

DraftKings was fined for taking bets on unapproved events consisting of Russian basketball for nine months in 2020 and 2021. It eventually voided over $61,000 in bets and returned the cash to consumers after being directed to do so by the state.

In this case, Kambi informed the division it misidentified this specific Russian basketball league as one that was authorized for wagering in New Jersey. DraftKings told the state it did not catch the error, either.

In 2020, DraftKings accepted 484 wagers on unapproved table tennis matches. Kambi incorrectly allowed the occasions for sports betting without conditions needed by the state, the department stated.

In Feb. 2022, the department stated DraftKings took pre-season NFL bets involving particular gamers however did not offer the state specific info on what info was to be included in the bets, drawing 182 wagers worth nearly $7,000 that were later voided and reimbursed to customers.

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