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Burlington, Larchwood casinos fined for self ban violations

November 23, 2020 By Dar Danielson

Two sports betting companies have agreed to penalties from state regulators for violations involving the self-ban gambling rules.

Racing and Gaming administrator, Brian Ohorilko, says Points Bet Iowa agreed to a penalty of $5,000. The company is the partner for the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, and the company failed to update the self-ban list into their system within the required seven days.

He says the company is taking steps to avoid a repeat of the issue. “It was a first offense for Points Bet. Points Bet as implemented additional procedures to ensure that does not happen again,” Ohorilko says.

Betfred Sports handles the sports betting for the Grand Falls Casino in Larchwood and had the same violation. “In this particular situation they had an employee that was responsible for downloading that did the download a day early — and then subsequently the following week was late with the download,” according to Ohorilko.

Ohorilko says the download of the banned list is important to prevent anyone on the list from receiving promotional materials or being allowed to gamble. He says it was an oversight, and just the first offense for Betfred.

They received an administrative penalty of $5,000. The Racing and Gaming Commission approved the penalties at their recent meeting.

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