MGC applies restrictions to sports betting platforms
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After a Wall Street Journal article on March 27 exploring credit and VIP customers in sports betting, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission began a discussion the next day about how operators target VIPs and at-risk people with limits on bets that can be placed in sportsbooks.
Commissioner Eileen O'Brien also said she would like to see the answers provided by any sports betting platform in Massachusetts to U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, who asked operators for information. Blumenthal is also sponsoring the GRIT Act, which allows 50% of the federal excise tax on sportsbooks to be returned and sent to problematic and responsible gambling programs.
A public-private consortium in Massachusetts also announced this week that it would begin exploring ways to raise awareness about how betting could harm young people and the risks associated with gambling, according to the Boston Herald.
According to a press release from Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office, the ultimate goal is to create an "evidence-based education, training, and health curriculum for middle school, high school, and college student youth."