Massachusetts regulators finally hold roundtable on limiting sports bettors

The much-anticipated meeting of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission where the group discussed the practice of limiting bettors was certainly more informative than the first effort.

For starters, every retail and online operator actually showed up, as opposed to a May meeting where they rescinded their participation after they learned they would not be able to discuss what they believed were proprietary secrets about how their trading rooms work.

This time around, the trading team was not particularly well represented, but compliance and counsel for operators appeared to discuss the issue. While they did not go into explicit detail, the group did offer the commissioners several explanations of situations where limiting takes place.

Operators also offered some insight into just how many people were being told they could not bet as much as they wanted.

Operators allege limiting impacts an extremely small population

BetMGM representatives said roughly 1% of Massachusetts patrons had b..