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Sports Tipboard Restrictions

  • Sports tipboards may only be used in conjunction with professional sporting events between two teams that are members of the NFL, NBA, WNBA, NHL, MLS and MLB. The Gambling Control Board may remove a league or an event if the Board deems the league or event lacks sufficient integrity to ensure fair play of sports tipboards based on the event outcomes. Sports tipboard games are most popular during the NFL season.

  • Each sports tipboard may be used for only one professional sporting event.

  • An organization must not transfer sports tipboard games in play from one permitted premises to another.

  • At a leased permitted premises, a sports tipboard game in play may not be transferred between a booth and bar operation. Organizations that OWN the permitted premises may transfer sports tipboards between the booth and bar operation.

  • Progressive or cumulative sports tipboards are not allowed.

  • A sports tipboard that is received in an altered or a defaced condition may NOT be used.

  • An organization must sell the sports tipboard tickets, group of banded tickets, or grid squares for the price preprinted on the flare.

  • A sports tipboard seal must not be opened or revealed until all chances have been sold or all unsold tickets have been secured or marked "VOID".

  • An organization must not redeem tipboard tickets that were sold by another organization.

  • If a game seal is compromised before the completion of all sales of tickets or chances or the start of the professional sporting event, the game is voided and the organization must:
    — immediately void and close the game,
    — mark "VOID" in permanent ink across the tipboard game flare,
    — refund all players the amount paid for a chance,
    — keep the voided sports tipboard game for 3½ years.

  • All tickets and chances must be placed out for play at the same time.

  • A tipboard ticket or grid square may not be given to a player free of charge or for any other consideration.

  • All tickets and grid squares must be sold for the price preprinted on the flare and not allowed for resale.

  • Only the seller may physically touch or write on the game flare.

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