![]() ![]() Kramer said that MGM Springfield told the Gaming Commission that the violation “occurred because when Harvard was originally added to the blacklist document under a previous jurisdiction’s requirement of no collegiate sports, it was incorrectly designated as being located in Connecticut, not Massachusetts” and then it “slipped through because of the prior incorrect designation” once sports betting began in Massachusetts. ![]() All bets were placed at a kiosk and a cumulative $1,230 was wagered on the two games, she said. In both cases, the games were available to be wagered upon for more than 20 hours and bettors took advantage of that 28 times. She said the Springfield sportsbook accepted bets on Harvard men’s basketball games played on Feb. In the interim, we have locked all NCAA women’s college basketball betting.” On Thursday, Band said that when “they reviewed the betting catalog and made sure was turned off, the system automatically turned it back on.” For the time being, he said, Encore has stopped taking any action on NCAA women’s basketball because that’s the “only way they can stop that from being offered.”Īn Encore spokesperson said, “Through our audits we identified a programming error in the system as it relates to NCAA women’s college basketball markets and are currently working with our provider on a permanent solution. 10, and the casino said it “instituted additional measures to ensure compliance moving forward.” When he detailed the Everett casino’s first violation for regulators earlier this month, he said that Encore planned to take over the process of assembling the list of events it accepts wagers on from GAN Sports by Feb. Whether to allow any collegiate betting at all was a major sticking point between the House (which wanted all college events open to wagers) and the Senate (which passed a bill prohibiting all college betting) last session, and the in-state school exclusion was a key compromise that got the legalization bill done at the last minute.īand said that a glitch in the system of Encore’s technology partner GAN Sports allowed the latest BC women’s basketball bets to be placed in the last few days. Massachusetts law allows bets to be placed on Massachusetts colleges and universities only when the team is playing in a tournament with at least three other participants. ![]() Sports Wagering Director Bruce Band told commissioners at the start of Thursday’s meeting that the matter is being vetted by the Investigations and Enforcement Bureau and will be before the commission in greater detail “in the coming week or so.” The commission on Thursday also heard a more in-depth review of similar violations of the state’s new betting law at MGM Springfield - which involved an error labeling Harvard University a school in Connecticut - and announced plans to hold adjudicatory hearings March 14 on the first two violations that came to light, at Encore and Plainridge Park Casino. Having already owned up to taking illegal bets on a Boston College women’s basketball game and assuring regulators that it had addressed the problem, Encore Boston Harbor in Everett is again under Gaming Commission scrutiny for taking forbidden bets on BC women’s hoops. ![]()
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