The Pennsylvania Gaming Management Board (PGCB) imposed a $125K superb on Wind Creek Bethlehem on Wednesday after nearly a dozen guests illegally entered the on line casino’s gaming flooring regardless of their ages.
Wind Creek Bethlehem, pictured above. The Pennsylvania on line casino was fined for a number of underage gamblers. (Picture: Reserving.com)
The penalty was imposed after 11 underage visitors starting from 18 to twenty years outdated went to the on line casino flooring at 10 completely different occasions. One must be no less than 21 to gamble at state casinos in Pennsylvania.
The situations came about between November 2021 and September 2023, in line with LehighValleyLive.com.
Younger Violators Completely Banned
Among the younger violators had been completely banned from returning to Wind Creek Bethlehem. Some even obtained citations from the Pennsylvania State Police.
As a part of the settlement, Wind Creek Bethlehem will put up indicators within the on line casino detailing penalties if visitors present false IDs in an effort to achieve entry to the property.
The on line casino can even place PGCB warning posters within the gaming property which might be a part of the “What’s Actually at Stake? Underage playing will price you!” instructional/enforcement initiative.
As well as, Wind Creek Bethlehem workers routinely checks IDs of visitors who look underneath 30 years of age.
Throughout the two years when violations came about, on line casino workers checked 737,257 IDs, the report stated. Because of this, 4,779 underage guests had been stopped from coming into the gaming flooring.
Child Left Alone in Automotive
The PGCB just lately banned an unnamed couple from visiting any Pennsylvania on line casino. The 2 left a five-month-old child unattended in a automobile at a state on line casino.
Whereas they saved the engine on, the couple went into Harrah’s Philadelphia On line casino & Racetrack in Delaware County to gamble, in line with Pennsylvania TV station WTAJ. The skin temperature whereas the child was within the automobile was 47 levels. There was no indication the kid was injured.
The couple returned to the car after a couple of half hour.
Each adults had been positioned on an involuntary exclusion record for the state’s casinos.
Girl Fails to Get Off Checklist
Throughout the identical assembly, the PGCB refused to take a girl off the involuntary exclusion record.
Her identify was positioned on the record in 2017 after she left a four-year-old youngster in a car at a gaming property.
The engine was turned off and the temperature outdoors on the time was 95 levels. The unidentified lady went contained in the on line casino to gamble. She returned to the car after about quarter-hour.
In a PGCB assertion, the board defined, “Adults are prohibited from leaving minors unattended within the parking zone or storage, a lodge, or different venues at a on line casino because it creates a doubtlessly unsafe and harmful setting for the kids.”
“Leaving minors unattended at a Pennsylvania on line casino additionally topics the offending grownup to felony prosecution along with exclusion from all Pennsylvania casinos,” the assertion added.
