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00:00All right, so let's get started here, the state of Massachusetts coming down here a
00:06little bit on BetMGM facing some non-compliance issues.
00:10Why don't you tell us more about what the story is and how they'll be affected?
00:15Yeah, so BetMGM came under the microscope in Massachusetts in recent weeks for allowing
00:24a ton, 15,000, in fact, 15,000 unapproved bets on college football player props.
00:34And, you know, Craig, as you know, over the last several months, really, the college football
00:40betting, college sports betting in general, especially the player prop side of it, has
00:46come under a bunch of scrutiny.
00:49A lot of states have outlawed it, not allowed in Massachusetts, but BetMGM was accepting
00:55bets on college football player props, 15,000 of them, like I said, for upwards of $200,000
01:03in bets.
01:04And obviously, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission didn't like that all that much.
01:10In addition to that, there were some bets that BetMGM took in Massachusetts on soccer
01:17matches, prop bets around the number of penalty cards that would be issued in a match.
01:25And if that sounded familiar, that's because it happened to BetMGM in Tennessee a handful
01:32of months ago, and they got hit with a pretty sizable fine in Tennessee for doing the same
01:38thing.
01:39So a lot of this went undetected at first on the part of BetMGM.
01:45So they ended up hiring an outside company to come in and audit some of their practices,
01:53some of their policies, and they uncovered a handful of other noncompliance issues.
02:00Now, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission did say at a meeting in the last couple of weeks
02:06that they'll be reviewing this matter even further.
02:10They'll bring it up at a future meeting.
02:13And as you know, too, Craig, the MGC is probably one of, if not the most publicly out there,
02:21if you will, when it comes to a lot of their regulations, and all of their meetings are
02:26streamed online live publicly.
02:29So the public constituents, reporters like myself, can get eyes and ears on everything
02:35that they're discussing.
02:37So this BetMGM noncompliance issue will come up at a meeting in the not too distant future,
02:43I'm sure.