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Casino Fined for Underage Gambling

The biggest thing that casinos have to worry about is underage players sneaking in to play the slot machines. All of the casinos have an age limit and most of them are 21 years old because of the fact that they serve liquor. But in this day and age of top notch fake IDs and children appearing much older than they really are, it can be tough for a casino to keep them out if they are not diligent about it.

The Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh found this out the hard way. They had two incidents where they had underage players at their slot machines and they got caught. The first time the casino was guilty of allowing a 15 year old female to play at a slot machine for seventeen minutes, and the second one was a 14 year old male was allowed to play at a slot machine for four minutes. Neither is an extremely long period of time, but the problem is the underagers making it onto the gaming floor at all.

The casino agreed to pay a fine of $16,000. State law says that if you are under 18 you cannot step foot into a casino at all, and if you are over 18 and under 21 you just can’t go onto the gaming floor. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is worried that if these two instances were caught, what about the ones that aren’t. They are more concerned with the underage players that don’t get caught and are able to play the slot machines for a much longer period of time.

The Gaming Control Board has been diligent about keeping underage slot machine gambling out of their casinos. In the past two years they have fined for eight occasions for a total of $232,500 and they have no plans on stopping.

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