by KYW’s Mike Dunn
The head of Pennsylvania’s Gaming Control Board says addictive gamblers who can’t stop themselves from using the two slots parlors planned for Philly can simply tell the casinos to lock them out.
It’s a practice called self-exclusion, in which people who have problems walking away from a slots machine voluntarily have themselves barred from the casino. Tad Decker, chairman of the Gaming Control board, says both slots parlors in the city will be responsible for maintaining a self-exclusion list:
“Once a person is placed on that list, they are prohibited from being in that casino, prohibited from having winnings, prohibited from having lines of credit or debts collected by anyone related to the casino.”
Decker says self-exclusion has been used successfully in other gambling facilities across the country. He spoke Thursday at a Bar Association panel.
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