NJ spanks GVC, Borgata for online gambling self-exclusion fail

New Jersey gambling regulators have brought the hammer down on GVC Holdings and its Borgata casino partner for allowing excluded individuals to gamble online.

In a civil action order dated March 9 but only just released, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement imposed an $81k financial penalty on bwin.party entertainment (NJ) and its land-based partner, MGM Resorts’ Borgata Casino Hotel, for permitting individuals who’d self-excluded from the companies’ online gambling sites to (you guessed it) gamble online.

The complaint filed by the DGE indicates that 12 individuals managed to slip past the online safeguards, and they lost a combined $41,759 during their unauthorized play. The DGE has ordered bwin.party and Borgata to forfeit these ill-gotten gains in addition to the $81k fine.

(In case you kids were wondering who the heck bwin.party is, the company was issued a license to operate in New Jersey way back when the state’s regulated online market launched in 2013. The bwin.party name was publicly retired a few years later after the struggling firm was acquired by UK-listed GVC Holdings.)