This story has been corrected to show one of the violations involved pre-match bets that were offered after a game had already begun, not games that had already concluded. The company told regulators it did not check the age of competitors before listing the video game event on its web site for betting, but said it has since added a process to do so. It took four bets totaling $1,225, but later voided them. 29, 2021, the company offered bets on a “League Of Legends” esports competition in which a player on one of the teams was 17 years old, under the legal minimum age of 18. PointsBet blamed human error for the mistake, according to the gaming enforcement division. Peter’s bets was live for 55 minutes and two people placed bets, totaling $60. Peter’s men’s basketball team, an underdog team which was on a legendary “Cinderella” roll through the NCAA tournament, but which was ineligible to be bet on in New Jersey. Sportsbooks generally accept bets on either side of a sporting event.
PointsBet also accepted bets on March 25, 2022, on the St. In sports betting, a teaser bet is a type of parlay bet in which the bettor is allowed to change the point spread for a game. A sportsbook is a company or individual who accepts bets from individual sports bettors. The division added that PointsBet attributed the problem to “an unresolved communication issue” between itself and a third party data feed provider.
