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An online sports betting company accused of switching winning bets to losers due to a computer error has been fined more than $130,000 by New Jersey regulators. SBOpco LLC, the operator of Superbook, was fined $20,000 for altering five wagers placed on a UFC match between William Knight and Maxim Grishin on a Feb. 12, 2022. The fines were imposed by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, according to filings obtained by the Press of Atlantic City. According to the filings, Superbook said a system error caused the odds for the match to display incorrectly. The error showed the odds as +145 for Grishin instead of Knight. Instead of honoring the original bets made while the incorrect odds were displayed, the company switched them, according to the filing. That meant players who had correctly picked the winner lost their wagers. Grishin won the match, and regulators later ordered Superbook to pay the rightful winners, according to state documents. Superbook was also fined for taking bets on several unapproved events, including a 2023 college basketball game in Atlantic City featuring a New Jersey team and the NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest. In a separate case, the state Division of Gaming Enforcement also fined Digital Gaming Corporation, which has the same parent company as Superbook, $112,188 for repeated violations of the state’s self-exclusion rules. The rules allow people with gambling problems to voluntarily ban themselves from wagering. According to an Oct. 14 enforcement letter, Digital Gaming failed to add self-excluded individuals to the state’s official list between March 2024 and January 2025, allowing multiple people who had opted out to continue gambling online. The company also let some players exceed the monetary limits they had set for themselves. “These incidents reflect failures in internal controls and compliance procedures,” Mary Jo Flaherty, interim director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, wrote in the letter. Both SBOpco and Digital Gaming are owned by Super Group, the parent company that oversees multiple online sports betting and casino brands in the U.S. and internationally. In July 2024, Super Group announced it would exit the U.S. sportsbook market while continuing its online casino operations. Digital Gaming ended its Betway sportsbook in New Jersey in August 2024 and closed its U.S. casino brands two months later.
