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Harrah's to pay $100,000 to settle sports wagering complaint
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Harrah’s Entertainment will pay $100,000 to settle a complaint filed by Nevada gaming regulators over sports wagering issues at its Harrah’s Las Vegas sports book.
The Gaming Control Board said a sports book supervisor rescinded three professional basketball wagers totaling $1,650 from a customer in April 2008. The wagers were made on “overnight lines on professional basketball.” After the wagers were accepted and betting tickets were issued, a supervisor took back the wagers and refunded the patron’s bets.
The patron was told he could make the wagers the next day at Caesars Palace, which is also owned by Harrah’s.
Gaming regulators said the move violated a gaming commission regulation stating that a sports book may not unilaterally rescind a wager without prior written approval of the Gaming Control Board chairman. In a stipulated settlement signed Thursday, Harrah’s admitted the allegations in the complaint and agreed to pay a fine of $75,000 and reimbursement costs of $25,000.
The Nevada Gaming Commission is expected to vote on approving the settlement later this month. Contact reporter Howard Stutz at hstutz@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3871.
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Jackie D.: You are 100% right - "Harrah's is synonymous with sleaziness." Of course as you know, I can think of other words for the largest Gaming Company in the world, but this is a public post with certain restrictions on language.
As I see it, Harrah's has a free ticket to do what they want when they want. Thus far they have gotten away with leaving thousands of their hotel rooms unsafe for the public to stay in for, in some cases, more than a decade...every single room, do I need to say anymore? By Harrah's own hand they created the perfect environment for another MGM Grand Fire Disaster, showing no concern for anything except for their precious bottom line.
What about the healthy doses of ASBESTOS that they shared with all their workers & hotel guests during the course of their illegal remodels (and some legal ones as well)? Should Harrah's again get a free pass for willfully putting all of us in harms way? Harrah's management knew that the asbestos was there, yet they consciously chose to illegally remove it. As an example, in some cases Harrah's had their employees scrape asbestos off of ceilings with nothing more than a scraper & dust mask - no training, coupled with no required by law protection...this is criminal in every sense of the word. Guess where the illegally removed asbestos ended up - right in the local dump adding insult to injury by polluting our environment as well. We should all be thankful that Harrah's is such a pillar of our community.
Here's Harrah's new slogan:
We were not successful killing you by fire, due to our illegal remodels, but we are sure that we probably got some of you with ASBESTOS...thanks for your continued patronage.
We all know the odds of all casino games are slanted to the house. However, several years ago when CEO Mr. Loveman came on the scene Harrahs took that slant and increased the angle. For instance the payoff for some blackjacks went from 3 to 2 to 6 to 5. The payout on some poker machine full houses went from 9 to 1 to 7 to 1. It has always been hard enough to win against the house, but with these slight changes in odds it has become one step from virtually impossible to win at a Harrah's property.
I get a bang out of the commercials that feature Mr. Loveman saying how the Harrah's employees are trained to recognize problem gamblers. He then gives a 800 number for problem gambling. The joke here is that Mr. Watanabi who says Harrah's fed him booze and pills and gave him markers till he owed 15 million to Harrah's. I would wager that this problem gambler wishes the Harrah's employees that were watching him were trained better to spot problem gamblers.
"welching"
Nice offensive comment lawbreaker...nothing like slandering an entire group of people. Plus it should be with an S.
Hmm. Wonder how many front line employees they will lay off today to get their $$$ back.