No fooling: Fan Duel fined for taking bets on April Fool's Day on events that happened a week before

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No fooling: Fan Duel fined for taking bets on April Fool's Day on events that happened a week before
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The FanDuel sports book took bets on some mixed martial arts fights on April 1, 2022.

Workers at the FanDuel sports book at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford N.J. prepare to take bets moments before it opened on July 14, 2018. On July 8, 2024, New Jersey gambling regulators revealed they had fined FanDuel $2,000 for taking bets in 2022 on mixed martial arts fights that had already happened a week earlier.

Instead, FanDuel’s trading team manually created betting markets based on information they obtained directly from the Professional Fighters League, New Jersey Deputy Attorney General Gina DeAnnuntis wrote. FanDuel told the state that on April 1, 2022, it took 26 online wagers and eight retail wagers worth $190,904 on the events.

It was not the first time a sports book operating in New Jersey mistakenly took bets on something that had already happened.that had already happened the day before. The bets were voided, and New Jersey regulators fined the Malta-based sports betting technology company Kambi Group and Chicago-based Rush Street Interactive $1,000 apiece.

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