1 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 two sportsbooks and a tech business for violations that included taking bets on unapproved events, and on video games that had currently ended.

In information made public Monday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement fined DraftKings $20,000. It also imposed $10,000 fines on Rush Street Interactive NJ and the sports betting wagering technology business Kambi.
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According to documents released by the state, Rush Street accepted 16 bets worth $1,523 in Nov. 2021 on a college basketball video game in between the University of North Carolina-Asheville and Tennessee Tech University after the video game had actually currently concluded with a UNC victory.

Kambi informed the enforcement department that a trader had actually failed to manually remove that video game from its sports betting markets, saying it had actually stopped receiving messages from its own sports betting data service provider due to a network connection error. Kambi stated it has actually upgraded its guidelines and retrained its traders to prevent a reoccurrence.
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Kambi, which is based in Malta, did not instantly react to a message looking for remark Monday. Rush Street declined comment, and DraftKings had no instant remark Monday. DraftKings stopped utilizing Kambi in 2021.
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In March 2022 Rush Street took 7 bets totaling just under $2,900 on three Magic City Jai Alai games after the outcomes were already known.

Kambi informed the division it experienced a connectivity problem that permitted the bets to be accepted after the video games were over. An explanation of what Kambi did to address the circumstance was blacked out in documents released by the division.

A month previously Rush Street took 13 wagers worth $8,150 with pre-match chances on an Expert Golf Association match after the event had currently started. In this case, Kambi told the division a recently hired trader failed to get in the right closing time time for bets on the event. The trader and a manager went through .

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 money to customers after being directed to do so by the state.

In this case, Kambi informed the department it misidentified this particular Russian basketball league as one that was approved for wagering in New Jersey. DraftKings told the state it did not capture the mistake, either.

In 2020, DraftKings accepted 484 wagers on unapproved table tennis matches. Kambi improperly made it possible for the occasions for wagering without conditions needed by the state, the department said.

In Feb. 2022, the department stated DraftKings took pre-season NFL bets including specific gamers but did not give the state particular info on what info was to be consisted of in the bets, drawing 182 wagers worth almost $7,000 that were later on voided and refunded to consumers.
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