PointsBet Canada will shut down its Ontario site for two days under a settlement with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, closing a case over suspicious Jontay Porter bets the operator failed to report.
The AGCO originally called for a five-day suspension in February. The two sides agreed Tuesday to cut that to two days, which will still mark the first suspension of a sports betting or online casino operator in Ontario’s regulated online gambling market.
PointsBet also agreed to an independent audit, using an auditor and methodology approved by the AGCO, and committed to addressing any findings. The fixes will be independently validated.
PointsBet sold its U.S. operations to Fanatics in 2024, but continued its Australian and Canadian operations.
How PointsBet got here
The AGCO asked Ontario operators in early 2024 to confirm whether they had offered bets on Porter and whether they had detected any suspicious betting activity. PointsBet responded late and told the AGCO it did not offer any wagers on Porter.
After a U.S. Department of Justice indictment in 2025 revealed Porter’s case was part of a broader insider betting scheme, the AGCO asked operators to reconfirm. PointsBet acknowledged, 18 months after its first response, that it did offer betting markets on Porter.
The AGCO then reviewed PointsBet’s wagering data, confirmed signs of the suspicious betting central to the scheme and said the wagers should have been detected and reported at the time. Operators serve as a critical first line of defense in protecting the integrity of sports, according to the AGCO.
“We require all operators to have robust systems and comprehensive staff training in place to reliably detect and report suspicious activity,” AGCO CEO and Registrar Karin Schnarr said in February.
She added that operators must be equipped to respond to integrity risks and that the AGCO will act when those standards are not met.
The NBA banned Porter for life in 2024 and he’s awaiting sentencing for manipulating his performance in games.
The NBA’s crackdown on props
With the 2026-27 season underway, the NBA has tightened its restrictions on player props and parlays in response to the Porter case and the federal case against Terry Rozier, who has pleaded not guilty.
In an Oct. 16 memo, the league told its sportsbook partners to stop offering parlays that stack multiple unders on the same player, bets on opening tips and certain individual plays, alternate under lines with bigger payouts and unders on players projected to play fewer than 12 minutes.
The NBA estimates its sportsbook agreements cover more than 99% of the U.S. betting market, but those deals don’t reach prediction markets offering sports contracts under federal commodities oversight.
