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 consisted of taking bets on unauthorized events, 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 imposed $10,000 fines on Rush Street Interactive NJ and the sports betting innovation business Kambi.
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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 after the video game had actually already concluded with a UNC success.

Kambi informed the enforcement division that a trader had stopped working to manually get rid of that game from its wagering markets, saying it had stopped receiving messages from its own sports betting information supplier due to a network connection mistake. Kambi stated it has updated its guidelines and retrained its traders to avoid a recurrence.

Kambi, which is based in Malta, did not immediately react to a message looking for remark Monday. Rush Street declined remark, and DraftKings had no immediate comment Monday. DraftKings stopped using Kambi in 2021.

In March 2022 Rush Street took 7 bets totaling simply under $2,900 on 3 Magic City Jai Alai video games after the results were already known.

Kambi told the division it experienced a connectivity issue that allowed the bets to be accepted after the games were over. A description of what Kambi did to resolve the scenario was blacked out in documents launched by the division.

A month previously Rush Street took 13 wagers worth $8,150 with pre-match chances on a Professional Golf Association match after the occasion had already started. In this case, Kambi told the division a recently worked with trader failed to get in the right closing time time for bets on the occasion. The trader and a manager underwent re-training.

DraftKings was fined for taking bets on unapproved events including Russian basketball for 9 months in 2020 and 2021. It ultimately voided over $61,000 in bets and returned the cash to customers after being directed to do so by the state.

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

In 2020, DraftKings accepted 484 wagers on unapproved table tennis matches. Kambi incorrectly enabled the events for sports betting without conditions needed by the state, the division said.

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

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