{"id":988,"date":"2025-09-19T14:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:53:05","slug":"best-online-casino-news-roundup-the-weeks-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/best-online-casino-news-roundup-the-weeks-top-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Online Casino News Roundup: The Week\u2019s Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"194\"><strong>South African glitch let players win without ever placing bets<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"257\"><strong>Jaguars staffer blew $22 million of team funds on FanDuel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"260\" data-end=\"322\"><strong>Regulators, fraudsters, and the IRS prove money never stays<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Imagine playing an online casino game where you can\u2019t lose and the wins just keep coming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/gamblers-ordered-to-return-750k-after-hollywoodbets-system-glitch\/\">This is exactly what happened<\/a> to some South African players on the <strong>Instant Lucky 7 <\/strong>game at<strong> Hollywoodbets<\/strong> recently.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_363039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-363039\" data-style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-post-thumbnail-858xAUTO wp-image-363039 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Hollywoodbets, Best online casino news\" width=\"858\" height=\"422\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hollyuwoodbets-858x422-1.jpg\"><figcaption>No such thing as free money. Hollywoodbets has successfully sued to recoup cash that players \u201cwon\u201d as a result of a glitch. (Image: Hollywoodbets)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dozens of players quickly realized the game was on the fritz and was allowing them to bet and win without deducting a stake from their accounts. The players were able to withdraw their winnings into their bank accounts before anyone at Hollywoodbets caught wind of what was going on<\/p>\n<p>The operator sued, and a spoilsport judge ruled this week the players had to return the money \u2013 around $750K in total \u2013 because the bets weren&#8217;t valid. In fact, because of the absence of a stake, they weren\u2019t \u201cbets\u201d at all.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>FanDuel Pays Out<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>From players who literally couldn\u2019t lose, to one who just couldn\u2019t stop losing. <strong>Amit Patel<\/strong> was described in court documents as \u201cthe biggest loser ever on FanDuel.\u201d To make matters worse, he wasn\u2019t gambling with his own money \u2013 the $22 million he lost belonged to his then employer, the NFL\u2019s <strong>Jacksonville Jaguars<\/strong>. In March 2024, Patel was sentenced to 6\u00bd-years in a federal prison for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>This week, it was reported that <strong>FanDuel <\/strong>had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/fanduel-agrees-to-pay-5m-to-jacksonville-jaguars-after-20m-fraud\/\">agreed to pay<\/a> the Jags $5 million in compensation because the company wanted to keep things sweet with the NFL, its \u201cofficial betting partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As one wag <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KennyDucey\/status\/1966556431919800544\">wrote on Twitter,<\/a> \u201cthe team will receive [the settlement] in the form of 250,000 $20 bonus bets, which expire in 30 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Fraud and Taxes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Speaking of fraud, UK regulators fined online casino <strong>Lottomart<\/strong> \u00a3360K ($485K) this week for failing to guard against scams. According to the UK Gambling Commission, the site\u2019s safeguards were so lax that one customer slipped past detection simply by swapping the order of their first and last names.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>In other fraud news, the US Department of Justice wants to seize more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/stake-com-cited-as-doj-seeks-5m-bitcoin-seizure-in-sim-swap-case\/\">$5 million in Bitcoin<\/a>, which it claims is the proceeds of <strong>SIM-swapping attacks<\/strong>. This is when criminals trick a mobile provider into transferring someone\u2019s phone number to a new SIM card, giving them access to texts and calls. The DOJ alleges fraudsters laundered the funds through crypto casino accounts \u2013 including those connected to\u00a0<strong>Stake.com<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 after stealing the money from victims\u2019 crypto wallets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The case highlights how unregulated crypto casinos can be used by criminals for nefarious purposes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/irs-warns-sports-bettors-betting-unregulated-books\/\">a message echoed<\/a> by the Internal Revenue Service this week, which also took the opportunity to remind Americans that they must pay taxes on winnings \u2013 whether they&#8217;re derived from regulated gambling sites or not.<\/p>\n<p>Which just goes to show, whether it\u2019s a South African judge, a SIM swapping fraudster, or the IRS, someone always finds a way to separate you from your winnings.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/best-online-casino-news-roundup-the-weeks-top-stories\/\">Best Online Casino News Roundup: The Week\u2019s Top Stories<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African glitch let players win without ever placing bets Jaguars staffer blew $22 million of team funds on FanDuel Regulators, fraudsters, and the IRS prove money never stays Imagine playing an online casino game where you can\u2019t lose and the wins just keep coming. This is exactly what happened to some South African players on the Instant Lucky 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chuckwardrealestate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}