Nevada regulators have fined Reno’s Boomtown Casino Hotel $40,000 for promoting offshore internet gambling to visitors to its website.
As part of a stipulated settlement with the state Gaming Control Board, Boomtown also agreed to donate to the Reno Problem Gaming Center a sum equal to the commissions the casino received based on the net losses of the players it referred to the sites.
Boomtown management admitted it used Affiliate Edge and Deck Media, skins based in the Caribbean nation of Curacao, to allow customers to gamble online between March and August of last year. According to a May complaint filed with the Control Board, Boomtown listed links on its website to “Play Online” and “Play𑁋Even Away,” which were links to the offshore sites.
The settlement also requires Boomtown to implement “suitable written procedures” and increase employee training “to prevent violations of the standards and requirements relevant to its gaming and related marketing activities, including its website and links placed on its website.”
In accordance with federal law prohibiting offshore gambling operators from marketing to U.S. players, Nevada prohibits companies from offering interactive gaming unless they are licensed by the state.
