{"id":97661,"date":"2019-02-04T05:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=97661"},"modified":"2019-02-04T05:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:53:19","slug":"all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"All Bets Are Off: New Jersey Regulator Mysteriously Pulls Plug on Oscars Betting"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Jersey sports books will not be taking bets on the Oscars this year, after all.<\/p>\n

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Oscars betting will not be taking place in New Jersey or anywhere else in the US this year. Could it be that AMPAS lodged a complaint with the DGE after it gave the green light last week? (Image: BGR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just days after the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) gave the go ahead<\/a> for legal wagering on the Academy Awards ceremony for what would have been the first time in US history, operators were told over to the weekend to remove their odds for reasons still unclear.<\/p>\n

According to LegalSportsReport<\/em>, the regulator informed operators in an email last week that \u201chaving reviewed the relevant information on integrity issues,\u201d pre-event betting could be offered \u201cfor this year only.\u201d<\/p>\n

The message included a request for operators to confirm whether they intended set odds and, if so, what kind of wagers and betting limits they planned to offer.<\/p>\n

Oscars Betting Integrity Problem <\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 91st<\/sup> Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 29, at the Dolby Theatre\u00a0on Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. Broadcast across the world, the ceremony generates big betting action in jurisdictions where it is legal, such as the UK.<\/p>\n

But it appears that for the foreseeable future Americans will have to limit themselves to office pools, which are generally legal in the US provided the organizer does not take a cut.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Nevada passed a bill<\/a> that added \u201cother events\u201d to the list of permissible betting activities, which had previously been confined only to horse and dog racing, and athletic sports occasions. While the new law was largely aimed at adding esports into the mix, it was thought it could also pave the way for betting on awards ceremonies.<\/p>\n

This did not prove to be the case.<\/p>\n

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The big issue for regulators in Nevada and elsewhere is the possible integrity issues that might arise from sanctioning betting for an event where the results are already known before they are publicly announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As Benjamin Eckstein of America\u2019s Line told the AV Club recently, \u201cPricewaterhouseCoopers, the geeks who come out every time with the briefcase, knows the results. Not that it ever leaks out, but it could. If it did, it could be a real black eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

AMPAS Objection?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nevertheless, the DGE said it was prepared to work around the possible integrity issues and — having done its due diligence \u2013 it seems unlikely that it would have suddenly changed its mind. A more likely explanation is that the U-turn was performed at the behest of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which stages the Oscars.<\/p>\n

When it comes to Oscars betting, European sports books typically refuse large wagers and closely monitor the markets for suspicious betting patterns. They\u2019re doubly reluctant to take big action on favorites because the dynamics of the Oscar voting process provide a unique set of betting circumstances.<\/p>\n

Oscar winners are decided by over 6,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science — a sample size that\u2019s often similar that of people betting via the bookies. It\u2019s not completely surprising, then, that they often arrive at the same answer.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why putting your money on the bookies\u2019 favorite for \u201cBest Picture\u201d is one of the safest bets going — just don\u2019t expect big returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Jersey sports books will not be taking bets on the Oscars this year, after all. Just days after the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) gave the go ahead for legal wagering on the Academy Awards ceremony for what would have been the first time in US history, operators were told over to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":97663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,13592,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew Jersey Regulator Mysteriously Pulls Plug on Oscars Betting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oscars betting odds taken down over the weekend as the DGE performs an about-turn on its decision to let New Jersey operators offer odds on Oscars this year.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Jersey Regulator Mysteriously Pulls Plug on Oscars Betting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oscars betting odds taken down over the weekend as the DGE performs an about-turn on its decision to let New Jersey operators offer odds on Oscars this year.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-04T13:53:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oscars.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"798\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casinoorgphilc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/\",\"name\":\"New Jersey Regulator Mysteriously Pulls Plug on Oscars Betting\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oscars.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-04T13:53:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-02-04T13:53:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\"},\"description\":\"Oscars betting odds taken down over the weekend as the DGE performs an about-turn on its decision to let New Jersey operators offer odds on Oscars this year.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/all-bets-are-off-new-jersey-regulator-mysteriously-pulls-plug-on-oscars-betting\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oscars.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oscars.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":798,\"caption\":\"Oscars betting will not be taking place in New Jersey or anywhere else in the US this year. 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