Stadium Casino RE, LLC, the entity managing Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia, located in the city’s Stadium District, has received a $100K penalty for breaching Pennsylvania’s sports betting regulatory requirements.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) approved a consent agreement proposed by the Board’s Office of Enforcement Counsel (OEC) to Stadium Casino to resolve the regulatory issues. Live! officials admitted that some of its FanDuel Sportsbook staff improperly accepted wagers over the phone from a gambler who was not present on the casino premises.
The state investigation revealed that it discovered a minimum of 15 bets were placed amounting to $287,421 over eight days for a customer who was absent from the casino. In Pennsylvania, proxy betting, or betting for someone else, is not allowed.
In addition to the $100K penalty, the PGCB annulled the gaming employment licenses of three sportsbook staff members who accepted and made the bets, leading to their dismissal.
This week, the PGCB also rejected requests from two bettors who were added to the state's Involuntary Exclusion List for leaving children alone in cars while they gambled inside a casino.
"Actions such as these to deny statewide gambling privileges serve as a reminder that adults are prohibited from leaving minors unattended in the parking lot or garage, a hotel, or other venues at a casino since it creates a potentially unsafe and dangerous environment for the children,” the PGCB wrote.
The Involuntary Exclusion List for iGaming in Pennsylvania is also growing. This week, the PGCB included 11 additional individuals on the blacklist after concluding that they participated in iGaming fraud.
The board reported that 10 of the individuals were discovered to have utilized another person's name and identifiers to create bogus iGaming accounts. The 11th individual banned allegedly utilized an iGaming account to launder money by receiving deposits from other individuals' credit cards into the account and then transferring the funds to their personal bank account without participating in any gaming activities.
The Bureau of Investigations and Enforcement of the Board carried out the iGaming investigation and presented the results to the OEC. The OEC advised the board to exclude the 11 individuals from any further involvement in iGaming.
Having become a hub for one of the largest gaming industries in the US, the PGCB has established itself as a new "gold standard" in gaming regulation.
Pennsylvania is among just seven states that permit online slots and interactive table games. The commonwealth features 17 physical commercial casinos, as well as retail and online sports wagering, fantasy sports, and video gaming machines located within diesel truck stops.
As Japan approaches the launch of its first casino, a group from the East Asian nation visited Pennsylvania last September to engage with PGCB officials and understand optimal regulatory practices for casinos.
PGCB Executive Director Kevin O’Toole informed Casino.org after the meeting that the Japanese officials were “highly concentrated on acquiring knowledge,” as their main goal was to gain a deeper insight into how the state carries out background checks on essential casino staff and how the board investigates potential regulatory violations.
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