(Radio Iowa) –  State regulators have issued a total of 80-thousand dollars’ worth of fines to three different companies that Iowans may use to place online bets on sports. Churchill Downs Technology, also known as Twin Spires, is paying the 20-thousand dollar fine for either contacting or setting up online wagering accounts for 17 people on the state’s so-called self-exclusion list. It means those people voluntarily asked to be prohibited from entering a casino or placing bets. Penn Sports Interactive — the sports betting operation associated with the Ameristar Casino in Council Bluffs — is paying a 20-thousand dollar for letting 51 people place proposition bets on men’s basketball games between N-C-A-A teams and teams in the N-A-I-A.

That type of betting market not allowed in Iowa. Penn Sports was fined another 20-thousand dollars for sending two marketing emails to someone who put themselves on the state’s self-exclusion list so they would not get those sorts of email. The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission also issued a 20-thousand dollar fine against Circa Sports, which offered certain types of wagers on an Iowa versus Michigan game that are not allowed under Iowa law.