The gaming company that regulates Deadwood casinos has refused a poker participant’s request to be faraway from the regulator’s involuntary Exclusion Checklist.
Rick Burleson poses along with his successful playing cards on the 2018 South Dakota State Poker Championship held on the Silverado On line casino in Deadwood. State gaming regulators have positioned Burleson on its Exclusion Checklist after he was present in possession of a solid poker match entry ticket. (Picture: Mid States Poker Tour)
The South Dakota Fee on Gaming yesterday rejected Rick Burleson’s plea that he be restored entry privileges to Deadwood’s 18 industrial casinos. Burleson argued that he was wrongfully positioned on the on line casino blacklist in March. The exclusion was based mostly on allegations that he knowingly tried to deceive a licensed gaming property within the historic Gold Rush city that at the moment is famed for its iconic Fundamental Road gaming parlors.
State gaming regulators positioned Burleson on the Exclusion Checklist after he was caught making an attempt to make use of a solid entry ticket to compete in a poker match in October 2021 on the Silverado On line casino.
Silverado safety personnel initially accepted Burleson’s fraudulent entry receipt into the $1,100 buy-in poker occasion. However on line casino officers later realized the receipt was invalid. Burleson was subsequently faraway from the on line casino.
Burleson is actually well-known on the Deadwood poker scene. The Fast Metropolis resident gained the South Dakota State Poker Championship in 2018 and its first-place prize of $63,462. The ultimate desk was held on the Silverado.
Petition Denied
Following a regulatory investigation, South Dakota gaming officers concluded that Burleson conspired with Benjamin Palmer, one other blacklisted individual on the state’s gaming Exclusion Checklist, to steal cash from the Silverado.
Regulation enforcement believes Palmer gave Burleson the solid poker ticket on the situation that the 2 would break up any winnings he gained from the occasion. Burleson advised the gaming fee yesterday that he had believed the ticket was official, and he was tricked into utilizing the counterfeit receipt to enter the match.
I used to be not below the impression that this was fraudulent,” Burleson said. “I hate how this has ruined my repute.”
Burleson says he’s been taking part in in Deadwood poker occasions for greater than a dozen years with out incident. However regulation enforcement probing the matter stated Fb messages between Burleson and Palmer revealed that he was a prepared participant within the deceitful scheme.
After listening to Burleson’s account of occasions, commissioners deliberated the matter behind the doorways. After a brief recess, the South Dakota Fee on Gaming introduced that Burleson would stay on the Exclusion Checklist. The panel didn’t present a proof for its ruling, however the vote was unanimous, the commissioners stated.
Banned Individuals Should Keep Away
Absent a profitable enchantment, Burleson should keep far-off from Deadwood casinos for the rest of his life. He’s additionally prohibited from getting into all tribal casinos within the state, as South Dakota’s Exclusion Checklist lends to Native American gaming flooring.
If Burleson violates his imposed circumstances, he would withstand a yr in county jail and a $2,000 positive. An individual on the Exclusion Checklist who enters a on line casino is topic to a Class 1 misdemeanor cost.
Deadwood and tribal casinos are additionally required to ensure nobody on the state gaming blacklist is permitted entry. Casinos face steep penalties, together with the suspension and even revocation of their gaming license, ought to they knowingly permit a prohibited particular person entry.
The gaming fee’s Exclusion Checklist consisted of lower than 10 people as of 2019, the newest publicly disclosed itemizing of dangerous actors.
