Nevada casino fined for promoting Affiliate Edge and Deck Media

[The Buzz]

Boomtown Casino Hotel in Northern Nevada will pay state gaming regulators a $40,000 fine after it admitted providing its customers links to Affiliate Edge and Deck Media.

According to CDC Gaming Reports:

In addition to the fine, Boomtown agreed to donate a sum equal to the payments the casino received from the online gaming activities to the Reno Problem Gaming Center, as part of the settlement.

The casino, located in the Reno community of Verdi, admitted it used Affiliate Edge and Deck Media, two off-shore gambling websites located in Curacao, to allow the casino’s customers to gamble online between March and August of last year.

The two websites offered commissions to “referring partners based on the net losses of any patron referred by the referring partner.”

Nevada gaming law prohibits the offering of interactive gaming unless the company is licensed by the state.

According the complaint, which was filed May 15, Boomtown listed links on its official website to “Play Online” and “Play – Even Away,” which were links to the offshore gambling sites. The sites offered multiple real money online gambling opportunities

A year earlier, according to the complaint, Boomtown sought ways for its customers to engage in free games on its website. After determining the costs, Boomtown officials explored offering the “free” games through links to the websites of other companies.

According to the complaint, a Boomtown customer in March 2017 asked the Gaming Control Board if the online gambling activity

Read more here: https://www.cdcgamingreports.com/nor...hore-gambling/

[matthewt]

Maybe only Nevada is being this strict, huh?

Surely, this penalty only applies to land-based casinos. It is written in Nevada's gaming law. How clearly it is written, I don't know.