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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Gambling Addicts Find Voluntary Maryland Casino Ban Unhelpful

(Click on the image for the News4 video report)
By Scott MacFarlane, Rick Yarborough and Steve Jones:

  • A program through which people voluntarily ban themselves from Maryland’s six casino is being criticized as toothless and unhelpful by local gambling addicts.
  • “We take every reasonable opportunity to ensure that people on the Voluntary Exclusion Program list are not on our property engaging in gaming," MGM said in a statement. "We do not ID every person through the door but we provide the photo and description for each person in the program to Surveillance and Security. We also upload it to into our Internal customer databases so as to flag any gaming activity under the person's name.”