(File Photo of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board Logo)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board approved a consent agreement yesterday resulting in a $30,000 fine against the operator of Valley Forge Casino Resort in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania after it allowed a 13-year-old to gain entry to the gaming floor and gamble. This incident happened in November of 2024 and that thirteen-year-old was gambling on slot machines for more than six hours. 12 individuals also got put on the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s various involuntary exclusion lists yesterday, which forbids people from gaming in a Pennsylvania casino via a betting site that is online regulated by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board or a location for a video gaming terminal. 1,422 people are on these lists. Yesterday’s actions from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board also included ten individuals being put on the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s Casino Exclusion List, which includes three of them for gambling while they left minors unattended in vehicles. According to that same release from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, here is the explanation of these three aforementioned people are who got on these lists, and why:
- A female patron who left two children, 3 and 9-years-old, in a vehicle in the parking lot of Wind Creek Casino Bethlehem for 10 minutes in order to gamble at slot machines; and,
- A male and a female patron who together left two 8-year-old children in a vehicle in the parking lot of Presque Isle Downs & Casino for 29 minutes while they gambled in the sportsbook.
Two othe people were put on the Involuntary Interactive Gaming Exclusion list from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board for actions involving gambling online that were fraudulent.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board will meet next at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2025 in the Public Hearing Room of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on the second floor of the Strawberry Square Complex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board will post more information on www.gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov about this meeting and the agenda the agenda before the meeting begins.