The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board issued fines of $140,000 to the Mount Airy Casino and Rivers Casino Philadelphia for issues related to slot machine comps. The two casinos acknowledged their employees gave out more complimentary slot play to patrons than permitted.
Casinos are allowed to give away free slot play as a marketing tool, but the casinos must have an approved plan that sets limits on who can issue the complimentary awards, and for how much. As part of the consent agreements, both casinos agreed to tighten controls on authorizations for complimentary play.
Rivers Casino, which was fined $47,500, made 405 erroneous awards from 2015 to 2016 of free slot play totaling about $26,000, according to the settlement. You can read more about the issues related to slot machine comps at The Inquirer.
