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William Hill Sportsbook was fined $20,000 by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) for taking bets on events that were already over. The miscalculation occurred in 2022 and 2023 and involves $25,000 in wagers on boxing, hockey, and collegiate basketball games. The event sparked concerns regarding the sportsbook’s betting policies, even though the majority of these wagers were canceled once the problem was identified.
In February 2022, William Hill accepted 42 bets on 12 college basketball games after their outcomes had already been determined. The bets, placed via in-person kiosks, were made on February 23 and 24. The sportsbook paid over $5,000 to customers on six of these bets before realizing the mistake. The remaining bets were voided, and the customers received their original wagers back.
The company later identified the error as being caused by its content supplier, London-based OpenBet. Similarly, in June 2022, William Hill took bets on a boxing match between Chris Kongo and Sebastian Formella. Although the event was advertised as starting at noon, it had already concluded by 11:55 AM. Another incident occurred in April 2023 when bets were accepted on a Denzel Bentley-Kieran Smith fight after it had finished.
Amelco, a sports betting technology business based in London, was additionally penalized $10,000 by the DGE for facilitating violations by PlayUp sportsbook, in addition to William Hill’s penalty. The penalty resulted from a March 2022 political wager that predicted Pete Buttigieg would win the presidency of the United States. Though successive court decisions have since permitted political wagers pertaining to the 2024 election, political betting was illegal at the time.
Amelco, the company that supplied PlayUp with sportsbook technology, blamed Sportradar for the problem. According to the business, Sportradar labeled the U.S. presidential election as a legitimate betting market by mistake.