Live! Casino Philadelphia Fined $100K for Proxy Sports Bets

Posted on: June 27, 2024, 10:13h. 

Last updated on: June 27, 2024, 10:24h.

Stadium Casino RE, LLC, the operator of Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia in the city’s Stadium District, has been slapped with a $100K fine for violating Pennsylvania’s sports wagering regulatory conditions.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) signed off on a consent agreement offered by the Board’s Office of Enforcement Counsel (OEC) to Stadium Casino to settle the regulatory mishaps. Live! officials conceded that several of its FanDuel Sportsbook employees wrongly took bets via the telephone from a bettor who wasn’t physically located on the casino’s grounds.

Along with the $100K fine, the PGCB revoked the gaming employment licenses of three sportsbook employees who accepted and placed the wagers, resulting in their termination.

Regulatory Actions

The PGCB this week also denied motions from two gamblers who were placed on the state’s Involuntary Exclusion List for leaving minors unattended in vehicles 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.

Pennsylvania’s iGaming Involuntary Exclusion List is also expanding. The PGCB added 11 more people to the blacklist this week after determining that those individuals engaged in iGaming fraud.

The Board’s Bureau of Investigations and Enforcement conducted the iGaming inquiry and reported the findings to the OEC. The OEC recommended to the board that the 11 people be excluded from further iGaming participation.

Premier Regulatory Agency

Since becoming home to one of the largest gaming industries in the US, the PGCB has emerged as a new “gold standard” of gaming regulation.

Pennsylvania is one of only seven states where online slots and interactive table games are allowed. The commonwealth is home to 17 brick-and-mortar commercial casinos, retail and online sports betting, fantasy sports, and video gaming terminals inside diesel truck stops.

PGCB Executive Director Kevin O’Toole told Casino.org following the meeting that the Japanese officials were “very focused on learning as much as they can,” with their primary objective to better understand how the state goes about conducting background checks on key casino personnel and how the board performs investigations into possible regulatory noncompliance.