On Wednesday, New Jersey sportsbooks joined Ohio in banning any wagers on Alabama baseball games. Johns said that if Ohio’s regulatory commission finds any possible evidence of actions in Louisiana affecting the bet, Louisiana’s board would investigate. “We have to protect the integrity of sports wagering or the system will crater.” Asked whether authorities in Louisiana might pursue criminal action against anyone involved in this case, Johns said that at this point his organization has no knowledge of anything specific to the case happening in Baton Rouge. Johns said it’s critical that when suspicious bets get placed, regulators and teams take quick action. “We let the regulators guide us,” Murray said. Murray said college baseball doesn’t typically draw heavy wagering until the College World Series. John Murray, the director of sports at Westgate’s Superbook, said that operators follow such directives immediately.
On Monday, Ohio’s Casino Control Commission issued an order to remove Alabama baseball games from the board. In the case of the Alabama-LSU bets, this process happened “within minutes,” Holt said. Integrity employee investigates and issues an anonymized warning to state control boards and sportsbooks. Integrity’s computer system or if a sportsbook operator reports suspicious activity, a U.S.
This includes an unusually large amount bet on a sport that doesn’t tend to draw wagers of that level and whether a bettor just opened an account or recently reactivated an account. Integrity president Matt Holt declined to reveal the amount of the bets placed, but he explained that his company monitors several factors that could generate a red flag. Integrity contracts with sportsbooks, sports leagues and state regulators to track gaming transactions. Johns said his organization checked to ensure that no one at LSU was involved and found no evidence that anyone with the Tigers played any role. Integrity, alerting the organization to a large bet placed on the Alabama-LSU game. Ronnie Johns, the chair of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, said his organization received an email this weekend from the independent gaming monitoring company U.S. ESPN obtained the text of an emergency order sent to Ohio sportsbooks regarding “suspicious wagering activity” on last Friday’s game against LSU, and later reported that two suspicious bets placed in Cincinnati, both involving LSU winning the game, triggered the alert. According to a statement issued by the school, athletic director Greg Byrne initiated the termination process, and Alabama will not provide further comment due to an “ongoing review.”īohannon’s firing comes days after a report that Ohio gambling regulators instructed sportsbooks to halt betting on Alabama baseball games on Monday afternoon.
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