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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey sports betting regulators have actually handed out $40,000 in fines to two sportsbooks and a tech company for violations that included taking bets on unapproved events, and on video games that had currently ended.

In information revealed Monday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement fined DraftKings $20,000. It likewise imposed $10,000 fines on Rush Street Interactive NJ and the sports betting innovation business Kambi.
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According to files released 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 actually currently with a UNC victory.

Kambi told the enforcement division that a trader had actually failed to manually remove that game from its sports betting markets, saying it had stopped getting messages from its own sports betting information provider due to a network connectivity mistake. Kambi said it has upgraded its standards and retrained its traders to avoid a recurrence.

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

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

Kambi told the division it experienced a connectivity problem that enabled the bets to be accepted after the games were over. A description of what Kambi did to deal with the situation was blacked out in files released 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 already started. In this case, Kambi told the division a freshly hired trader stopped working to go into the proper closing time time for bets on the occasion. The trader and a manager underwent retraining.

DraftKings was fined for taking bets on unapproved events including Russian basketball for nine months in 2020 and 2021. It eventually 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 department it misidentified this particular Russian basketball league as one that was approved for sports betting in New Jersey. DraftKings told the state it did not capture the error, either.

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

In Feb. 2022, the division stated DraftKings took pre-season NFL bets involving specific gamers but did not provide 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 customers.

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