00:00yesterday on his podcast i guess on sunday i should say on his podcast bill simmons admitted
00:07to giving his daughter's boyfriend bets to place in massachusetts on his behalf
00:17ringer founder ben's bill simmons according to our guy jeff edelstein from ingame.com
00:23who is a long-standing sports book partnership seem hesitant at first to tell the story
00:29quote i had to make some moves to be able to get these houston texans bets in a month ago
00:36that i
00:37don't want to talk about simmons said with cousin sal quote i love this please talk about it simmons's
00:45friend joe house repeating he made some moves simmons paused for about four seconds looked up
00:52in a way at the camera and then said i'm going to talk about it he then explained in detail
00:59with clarity how he in california teamed up with his daughter's boyfriend in massachusetts
01:06to get down on ucla and texans futures the problem with this is that the massachusetts law
01:15with massachusetts regulators are nothing to play with they're pretty darn specific
01:22books in massachusetts to prevent quote persons from placing wagers as agents or proxies for others
01:30and if caught the regulations classify anyone placing a wager as a proxy for another person as a prohibited
01:37person meaning simmons's daughter's boyfriend should now be banned from fanduel it also demands the
01:43operator cancel the wager and confiscate the cash and becomes simmons said he gave another person
01:50access to his fanduel account something fanduel's terms expressly prohibit mass regulations state that
01:57his account shall be suspended in the state if fanduel has evidence of that term terms of service
02:04violation now is this a big deal is this a big problem no no this is not a big deal
02:13have we who are in all of these things yes have we all had situations where you gotta do some
02:20stuff
02:20to get odds that might be better than what book you have access to yes okay is that proxy betting
02:26yes
02:27but shut up bill you can't do this you gave them all the evidence you have a fanduel situation
02:36you explain not hey i had some guy do this he explained that it was his daughter's boyfriend
02:43his daughter just turned 21 or his daughter's boyfriend just turned 21 he's a good guy from a
02:49good family and they like the kid a lot and so he called the kid and said hey i need
02:53you to help me get
02:54down on this so go ahead and put this bet in for me without thinking about what you're saying publicly
03:02because you're trying to do what entice other people with fanduel accounts to do the same thing
03:08like that doesn't make any sense so you have to be smarter than this you have to just be more
03:15intelligent about the platform you're talking on you're talking on netflix you're talking on the
03:20ringer and you are a public figure and people are going to pay attention to what you're saying
03:25in particular when you talk about a gambling violation with a 21 year old okay this is a 21
03:33year old who you turned into a proxy with how much money did you bet bill i think people are
03:38going to
03:39want to know something hey bill how much money do you get down on that and then what do you
03:43do with
03:43it because you're going to lose the money because fanduel according to mass state law will confiscate it
03:48and the reason why they're going to cut they're going to confiscate it is because of the fact
03:55that they now know you did it you have admitted to doing it and massachusetts is not to be played
04:04with
04:04okay the gaming control board nevada has the most aggressive new jersey's number two but mass would
04:10come in number three in the country for aggressive gaming control boards with enforcement they don't play
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