The heads of Australia’s leading corporate sportsbooks have been grilled over the practice of banning advantage players during an often-tense day of questioning at an inquiry into the impacts of online gambling.
With the inquiry turning its focus to sports betting practices and advertising this week, Sportsbet CEO Barni Evans and Director of Regulatory Strategy and Safer Gambling for Entain, Steven Lang, were among those in the hot seat on Tuesday although both were reluctant to concede they may ban or restrict advantage players.
Evans in-particular was involved in a heated exchange with committee chair Peta Murphy after she asked whether Sportsbet bans players who gain an edge via arbitrage betting or constantly win using bonuses.
