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Underage Slot Player Causes Casino Fine

An underage slot machine player at the Hollywood Casino in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has led to the gambling establishment being disciplined and fined by the state Gaming Control Board. The Mountainview Thoroughbred Racing Association, the casino’s parent company, has been assessed a five thousand dollar fine dating back to an incident in mid-July. A twenty year old player entered the Hollywood Casino and spent twenty-five minutes playing slot games on the casino floor.

At the time of the incident, patrons eighteen years or older were allowed to be on the gaming floor, but had to be at least twenty-one to play slot machines. As a result of the disciplinary action, the casino, which adjoins the Penn National Race Court, has changed its policy to disallow anyone under twenty-one from being on the floor at all. Clearly, the Hollywood Casino’s competitors also got the memo, because all seven casinos doing business in Pennsylvania now have the same policy in place.

The Board was hard at work crafting new policies when it addressed the issue that took place in Harrisburg. During its latest session, it also revoked two gaming employee permits and allocated over one hundred twenty thousand dollars to the Police Departments of both Hellertown (Northampton County) and the Borough of Homestead (Allegheny County) to fund initiatives aimed at cracking down on illicit slot machines. These latest two grants join the twenty-seven others that have already been approved and distributed to law enforcement agencies throughout the state, totaling over three million two hundred forty-seven thousand dollars. Municipal agencies can apply for the grants in amounts up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars to fund programs aimed at finding and eliminating illegal slot game operations.

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