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Saying Goodbye to a Pro

The tennis industry is weeping this week as another star dies. The Michael Jackson funeral and all of those preparations and goodbyes have overtaken the world right now. But in the tennis industry, and indeed tennis enthusiasts and online casino bettors, the death of young Mathieu Montcourt, a 24 year-old player from France comes as a shock. Montcourt has been in the headlines a lot lately because of his suspension over gambling at an online casino betting venue on tennis matches. The courts ruled that Montcourt would face a hefty fine for his previous betting activity and an eight week suspension. That suspension was later dropped to six weeks because the judge gave leniency on the fact that the player didn’t actually bet on any of his own matches.

Montcourt ban from the tennis courts all stemmed from gambling at the online casinos and betting venues on 36 separate tennis events that occurred back in 2005. The judge’s ban from the game started just after his ban began –for six weeks Montcourt would have been forced to lay low and merely observe the games. Unfortunately the news is now reporting that Montcourt died of natural causes and it just happened to coincide with his ban from the sport of tennis.

The Court of Arbitration of Sport has really come down hard on the players that use online casino betting venues because of the threat that it has to the whole integrity of the sports gaming industry. Montcourt was not particularly singled out to act as an example although many in the industry thought that his punishment was a little harsh. Instead, it is merely the judge setting a strong precedence that land and online betting on sports by players will simply not be tolerated.