New Jersey’s sports betting law prohibits oddsmakers from issuing lines on college events involving state-based teams, regardless of whether they’re playing at home or away in another state. Caesars Entertainment was fined $2,000 last fall for taking bets on a Rutgers football game played in Kansas.<\/strong><\/p>\nTougher penalties could be coming.<\/p>\n
Assemblyman Ralph Caputo (D-Essex) has introduced legislation that would increase penalties on sportsbooks that take unlawful bets to $20,000 to $100,000 per violation. “<\/span>We want New Jersey’s sports gaming industry to succeed, and in order for us to do this, we must guarantee that everyone plays fairly by the rules, and that if people break those rules, they are punished accordingly,” Caputo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The online gaming provider to Hard Rock Atlantic City mistakenly allowed a bettor located outside New Jersey to make a $29 wager. The incident led to a $25,000 fine. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) levied the penalty against Gaming Innovation Group, an internet gaming business-to-business compay that provides brick-and-mortar casinos with online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":104594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Hard Rock Atlantic City Online Gaming Partner Fined $25K Over $29<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n