The Massachusetts Gaming Commission dinged all three of the bodily casinos it oversees on Tuesday for taking unlawful bets on Massachusetts school sports activities at their sportsbooks, levying a cumulative $50,000 in fines for violations that occurred within the earliest days of authorized sports activities wagering right here.

Plainridge Park Casino in Plainville was fined $20,000 for taking bets on a Feb. 2 common season males’s basketball recreation between Merrimack College and Long Island University, MGM Springfield was hit with a $20,000 penalty for providing motion on common season Harvard males’s basketball video games on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4, and Encore Boston Harbor in Everett was fined $10,000 for taking a wager on a Feb. 2 common season recreation involving the Boston College ladies’s basketball crew.

Massachusetts regulation prohibits wagering on occasions that contain Massachusetts schools except it’s a part of a event of a minimum of 4 groups.

The Gaming Commission decided the incidents have been every “a serious violation of statute, regulation, and the Massachusetts Sports Wagering Catalog” and mentioned the fines have been supposed as each a consequence for violating state regulation and fee laws, and “as a deterrent from letting the same or similar violations occur again.”

The distinction within the positive quantities seems to stem from the main points of the incidents themselves. At Plainridge, the sportsbook took 33 wagers value $6,848 on a forbidden Merrimack recreation (the North Andover school was incorrectly labeled as being in Florida) and wagering was out there for about seven hours.

MGM allowed betting on two Harvard video games, taking a complete of $1,230 in wagers as a result of the Cambridge faculty was labeled as a Connecticut school.

The Encore incident — the primary of two that shared many particulars — concerned one wager being positioned on a prohibited BC ladies’s basketball recreation as a part of a five-game parlay with $70 complete placed on the road. Encore realized its error earlier than the sport began and voided the BC leg of that parlay wager. The Everett on line casino took further unlawful bets on BC ladies’s hoops later in February after “the system automatically turned it back on” as an occasion open to wagers, a Massachusetts Gaming Commission official mentioned that month, however the second obvious violation was not addressed Tuesday.