For 86 New Jersey gamblers, it was good while it lasted. It was also too good to be true.
Rush Street Interactive and Kambi Group offered a prop bet on whether soccer player Marcus Rashford would score a goal for Manchester United in its May 13 game against Liverpool. For the record, he did.
But a Kambi trader in England entered a start date as May 14 by mistake. The 86 bettors didn’t have to read too much between the lines to know they could wager on a game already played. They won a total of $15,000, according to the Associated Press. Rush Street and Kambi voided the errant bets. Too bad, bettors. But they did so without contacting the Division of Gaming Enforcement first. Still too bad bettors, but also too bad Rush Street and Kambi.
“We and our partners take compliance seriously, and after the partner informed us that one of their millions of betting markets was left open after the European soccer game concluded, Rush Street self-reported to the NJDGE and agreed to pay the $1,000 penalty,” Rush Street spokeswoman Lisa Johnson said.
Since the wayward bet, Kambi implemented mandatory additional steps to retrain its team members while requiring a secondary approval from supervisors for all manual entries on its sports data feed, according to regulators.
