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An underage gambler has cost the Atlantic City Hilton Casino over $115,000—the second-largest fine for underage gambling in the city's 31-year history of casino gaming. (Last year Bally's Atlantic City was slapped with a record-setting $157,500 fine for letting an underage customer gamble; the legal age there is 21.) The Hilton's teenage gambler, identified only as "M.R." by the gaming commission, was granted a player's account at the Hilton in 2007 and even given a free room. He was 19 at the time, but gave fake identification indicating he was 24. During the next 16 months, "M.R." traveled repeatedly to A.C. from Brooklyn, and in February 2008, he was arrested at a different casino for underage gambling. Still, the Hilton didn't know his real age until April 2008, when the Gaming Enforcement Division found a record for "M.R." at the Hilton, and notified the casino. But the next day, the casino permitted him to gamble some more, for nearly three hours. Linda Kassekert, chairwoman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, tells the AP, "We have a big concern about it because kids can make themselves look older, and that's problematic." Especially if they get lucky.
Brooklyn Teen Gambler In Atlantic City Costs The House Dearly
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This is stupid.
19? He got arrested because he gambled at 19?
I like how they refer to him as a "Kid".... If he hit somebody, had sex with someone who was "17" or anything like that... he would be an "adult" a "man"
But he goes to gamble... and hes a kid?
This shouldn't even be news. This guy is old enough to handle himself.
Well said.
Vice laws should all be aboloshed for anyone 18 or over. Ridiculous. Its 18 to vote or join the military, 21 to drink, 18 to gamble in Vegas and Reno, 21 to gamble in Mississippi, 21 in Atlantic City, 18 to die for your country in the military, 16 to be charged as an adult for most crimes. Someone needs to change all this inconsistency crap left over from when the Puritans were around. It should be a blanket 18 for everything. If you're an adult in one thing you should be an adult in all.
It's a quick slide into the poorhouse once you get the gambling bug. Same for booze. No need to start to early.
How convenient that this story is reported right as the Donald takes back his casinos and says he's going to make AC "hot once more."
Let under 21 kids gamble if accompanied by a parent. That would open some eyes...
If this kid was comped in AC for gambling at age 19, he is probably connected and he should be the one being punished.
Connected? Come on. Anyone who puts a grand or so through their account will be comped. All you have to do is ask.
You can play the lottery at 18, yet gamble at 21, WTF? Age discrimination is this.
"Costs the house dearly"
I don't think a 100k is that big a deal to the Hilton or Bally's.
last sentence in the post + photo = brilliant double entendre john
Okay, so let me get this straight...
1. A 19 year-old "kid" gets a fake ID and lies about his age.
2. The authorities respond to this by... fining the casino???
I fail to see why such a "kid" requires paternalistic protection by the state. If anything, they should have thrown him in jail for identity fraud. How is the casino anything other than a victim twice over in this scenario?
Did you read it? The gaming commission notified the casino of his actual age and then the casino let him gamble the very next day.