The Gambling Commission, the government’s betting watchdog, is understood to have launched a review of the Tote’s betting activity.
The former state-owned betting operator is under scrutiny over whether it is fulfilling its obligation in its pools to make it “clear to customers in plain language” that they could in effect be betting against the Tote itself when they gamble on small-stake, high-win pools, such as the popular Placepot bet.
The Commission will now assess whether the operator is compliant with the regulator’s rules to ensure that gambling is “conducted in a fair and open way” and to make the extent of the Tote’s involvement in its pools “clear to customers in plain language”.
