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New Jersey’s responsible gambling penalties amounted to $81 per $1 million of revenue between November 2025 and October 2026, according to CasinoReviews.net’s Regulator Strictness Index 2026. The UK Gambling Commission’s rate was £846 per £1 million of gambling yield, according to StreetInsider.com, which carried the release.
The index was published for Safer Gambling Week. It covers 89 penalties published by seven regulators in the UK, Canada, and the U.S.
New Jersey’s penalties and the operators named
Ten of New Jersey’s 11 responsible gambling penalties involved breaches of self-exclusion rules, the index found.
Caesars Sportsbook paid $296,715 in New Jersey, including disgorged profits. BetMGM paid $157,789.
Across all types of penalties, the index put New Jersey at $152 per $1 million. Massachusetts was at $111, Pennsylvania at $78, and Ohio at $209. Ontario was at C$193, the UK at £1,206, and Nevada at $931.
How other jurisdictions compare
Massachusetts imposed $3.66 per $1 million of revenue in responsible gambling penalties. Neither Nevada nor Ohio published a responsible gambling penalty during the period.
Nevada’s total was driven by fines of $7.8 million against Caesars Palace and $7.2 million against The Venetian over illegal bookmaker Mathew Bowyer. Ohio’s only published penalty was a $450,000 settlement with Bally’s Interactive over tax reporting.
The largest UK case was a £5.01 million payment by the Grosvenor casino group for social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures. Michigan was excluded because its regulator does not publish the amounts of its enforcement decisions.
Nikoleta Kuncheva, project manager and lead researcher at CasinoReviews.net, commented on the findings. "Self-exclusion is the last safeguard a player sets for themselves," she said. "When the penalty for breaking it ranges from millions of pounds to a few thousand dollars, and one state will not even say what it charges, players have no way of knowing how seriously that promise is enforced."
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Source: As reported by StreetInsider.com.
