The Bear Growls at Nevada Gaming Control

[zengrifter]

The Bear Growls: Nevada Gaming Control Board gives casinos
permission to harass patrons with impunity

Long-time Las Vegas-based advantage player, casino critic, and frequent BJ21.com contributor LVBear offers his opinions on things that sometimes go wrong in the world of casinos. Current and past growls can be read and comments posted at LVBear's website, TheBearGrowls.com

By LV Bear
LVBear584@cox.net

Title 31 has been the law of the land for quite some time, except in Nevada, where Regulation 6a was in force. Now that Regulation 6a has expired, Nevada casinos are making up new excuses to harass winning patrons, using a tortured construction of Title 31 as an excuse to do so. Nevada’s useless and corrupt Gaming Control Board as usual has positioned itself cozily in the pocket of the casino industry against the interests of patrons. Board member/industry hack Mark Clayton wrote:

... if a licensee chooses to implement an identification standard for transactions less than $10,000, the Board will support a licensee who refuses to make a cash payment until the patron provides appropriate and requested information. For race and sports winning tickets, if a patron does not provide the appropriate identification, the casino shall maintain the unpaid status of the ticket in the bookmaking system.

http://gaming.nv.gov/documents/pdf/industry_ltr_152.pdf

No other state has taken this position. No other state’s casinos harass patrons in this manner. Again, the Board has embarrassed Nevada. Mr. Clayton, maybe in a feeble attempt to make a joke, added:

It is important to apply those policies in a fair and consistent manner.

If Mr. Clayton believes that Nevada casinos will comply with his wish, perhaps he also believes in the Easter bunny. Clearly, casinos will not “apply those policies in a fair and consistent manner.” They will harass with impunity whoever they please, now worse than ever. There will be no penalties or enforcement actions taken for violations of Mr. Clayton’s wish. The Nevada Gaming Control Board makes me sick.

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[glovesetc]

have adapted this rule as well especially in Detroit where it has been in effect for at least 5 years . I was always asked whenever I cashed pumpkin chips or more then $3,500.00 but I always said i had no I.D. and they did cash me out but I have heard of others telling them to go fluck themselves and the casino said take them with you then and come back with proper I.D. !!!! Coming down to the point where you are better off probably playing smaller casinos and hitting and running and keeping your wins down to like $2,000.00 and then book . Pity the system has changed so much against patrons . There seems to be no patrons rights in the gaming industry and the comps now are all generated by computer although PC still have some leeway in handing them out but not much .

[ihate17]

Was in Vegas last month and a guy wanted to bet "money plays", $100 and was told there is no more money plays since title 31 forbids it.

Was in a California Indian Casino, with title 31 pamplets all over the place, last week and a woman bet cash between $500-$1,000, six or seven times and no one flinched. Now this Indian Casino was I believe following title 31 because once this woman had played $10,000 from her pocket in either cash or buying chips, they took CTR info from her.

ihate17