These gamblers took dramatic steps to be barred from entering a Maryland casino again. Then they went anyhow.

While Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Mary Land Live Casino is working to meet the opening requirements during the Coronavirus, some of the tables are waiting for encouragement.

Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Oshan Smith shows disinfectants spray in areas with footprints to remind people to keep social distance.

Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun All other game consoles remain dark to maintain social distance.

Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun A banner warns the guest in the elevator lobby of Maryland Live Casino.

A proletarian standing in front of a thermography that monitors the body temperature (set to 98, 0 degrees F) while Karl Merton Ferron Ferron/Baltimore Sun Maryland Live Casino works to meet the open requirements during Coronavirus.

CARL MERTON FERRON / BALTIMORE SUN Dozens of Automatic Disinfecting Automatic Disinfecting Disinfection Waiting for installation.

Carl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun アンソニー・ファランカ（Anthony Faranca）エグゼクティブ・バイスプレジデント兼ジェネラルマネージャーは、社会的距離の要件を維持するために電力を供給されるスロットマシンの間に立ち、クローズドスクリーンに表示される 。

CARL Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Anthony Faranca, Vice President and General Manager.

CARL MERTON FERRON/BALTIMORE SUN Executive Vice President and General Manager Anthony Faranka was intentionally muted among electric slot machines that maintain social distance requirements to meet the opening requirements at pandemic. It is projected on the monitor.

AMY DAVIS/BALTIMORE SUN Entrance and casinos.

Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun's floor stickers urge guests to keep their social distance at the Horseshoe Casino cash register.

With concerns about Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun Covid-19, poker rooms are closed when Horseshoe Casino resumes, and the building is currently preservatives and signs for new cleaning protocols introduced to prevent the spread of colonavirus. Is used to store.

Amy Davis / Baltimore Sun Casino guests can wipe the machine with a preservative wet tissue before playing, in addition to the thorough cleaning of the casino.

Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun All other game consoles remain dark to maintain social distance.

Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun sanitizing tools at each table for playing craps, bones are sanitized before each use, and six players participate in each game as normal.

Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Orchid Kitchen waits for patrons with barriers and six-foot marks while waiting for Maryland Live Casino to comply with opening requirements.

Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun Randy Conce, vice president and general manager of Horseshoe Casino, talks about new protocols developed to fight coronavirus when city officials allow casinos to reopen.

Karl Merton Ferron/The Baltimore Sun Benjamin Herbst, an attorney with the Herbst Cos. in Baltimore, represented the interests of more than 20 players who fall under the exemption list. Pictured March 3 near the office.

Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun Only three seats are available at the poker table, while the others remain closed.

Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun Bottles of disinfectant were placed on every gaming table at the Horseshoe Casino. Chips are washed daily. These are two of the new protocols devised to limit the distribution of the coronavirus when city officials allow casinos to reopen.

Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun There are only two chairs in the dining area at each table as the Maryland Live Casino Casino waits for all requirements to be met to open.

Show signs Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun

Plexiglass barriers on one table are expected to be approved as the Maryland Live Casino Casino is calculated to meet opening requirements during the coronavirus pandemic.

Updated: 10 a. m. April 1, 2021.

Three years after her husband died, on Thanksgiving Day weekend, the widow sought relief from the dark pandemic of mental pain and loneliness amid the bright lights and noise of the casino.

Hung Louung, 67, knew she shouldn't have been at a live poker table! She spent nearly 13 hours there, as caught on security camera footage at the Casino & Hotel Maryland in Hanover.

At a time of self-awareness and determination, the postal worker signed a document a year ago confirming she had a "gambling problem" and committed to staying away from six "Loss Every Win" casinos, according to state and court documents.

However, like Sotokulum gambling from Maryland, which was confident during the Coronavirus's trend, Ruonga moved to the casino with toxic consistency, such as stress, buying, and isolation, continued all year round.

"I am doing something that I am forced to experience my living myself."

While the epidemic was widespread, Luong, according to the state lottery and gambling audit, was accused of Casinomery Land in the last six months of 2020, which is inadequate agreement on "voluntary elimination". It was the amount of the number.

The second half of the 205 violations were 61 % higher than 127 cases in the second half of 2019.

This is a part of the cause, "This is a part of the trouble." "Some people think that gambling is actually a way to make money."

In a casino floor with enough windows and time, problematic players lose themselves in poker, slot, blackjack, and other beds, as well as paces of dissonance, beeps, and calls. 。

Occasionally, Baltimore Sunpaper has confirmed that casinos have not complained of the states.

LOUONG visited a live, for example, permitte d-including 12 hours after maximum and 12 hours! He received a $ 1000 deposit from the casino, and in effect, she was able to continue the game with poker. This operation is described in a report about the case created by an employee of the state casino control service that did not meet the standard, assuming Luong, a political person in Maryland and the casino, was included in the banned list. It is done.

Representative Live-certified Casino Dara-Koen did not talk about what happened, but in her own statement, she pointed out what other guests are working on to find a casino in gambling. did.

"The safety of guests and team members is the most important values ​​in Live. casino! In casinos, the safety of guests and team members is the most important value, which is for those who participate in the" voluntary exception program]. It is also applied, "said Cohen.

"We are improving our daily steps as a mission as a market leader. In the latter half of 2019, we have added technology that leads to branches to further improve the early detection of VE P-members. She refused the outline of this technology.

Voltimore's Herbusto-Benjamin Herbusto, a proposal for business, has benefited to more than 20 players on the exceptional list. The photo is near my office on March 3rd.

In June, the Republican Governor Rally Hugan was allowed to resume a state of 50 % load and a casino three months before he ordered them to cut them to delay the spread of microorganisms. It was done.

The closing of the casino said, "Gambling's delayed demand, and the delayed despair among problematic players" said Keith White and Gambling's executive director. "They are increased by adrenaline and endorphins. At this time they experience that they are happy, alive, and valuable.

Gambling people may be banned from entering two years or permanent for two or permanent, at the office of the Mary Lotus and Gambling Monitoring Bureau in Casino and Baltimore. For two years, those who have been banned have a chance to evaluate the licensed consultant with the permission of the institution to get out of the program. In unpleasant cases, they remain on the list indefinitely.

The program is "a successful sel f-help device for those who want to change their own life," said Gordon Medenic, a lottery Gambling Agency.

In July, 38 sel f-exclusive players (LIVE! Casino " -No n-compliance were prosecuted in the Casino 1st Absolute Moon. It was the highest month indicator, and this index rose to 47 and remained significantly higher than the average.

Luongus and other defendants are threatened by the biggest penalties for three months and $ 500 in the first violation of the first violation. However, almost all similar cases are the sanctions of social welfare and consultation.

The hearing is scheduled for May 5.

Russell Street Casino Horse Shoe Baltimore was taken on the 24th. (Amy Davis/ Baltimore Sun)

"During the pandemic," I feel lonely, "said Ruon. She went live along the notebook! He went to the casino on Sunday afternoon, thanked him later, played seven rounds of poker towards the right 12 hours, and then asked for two deposits at the cash register with interest in security care. After the casin o-the employees correlated her name to more than 2, 400 in the state's sel f-exclusion list. According to Luonga, it was less than $ 1, 000 at the moment of the supervision.

To write this commentary, The Sun reviewed police and court records, as well as 10 casino incident reports obtained from the Lottery Gaming Oversight Board at the request of a Freedom of Information source. The suspects' names are withheld in the incident reports, but are listed in police indictments.

Footprint reports show that, in fact, what happened to Luong was a variation of the scene, mostly at live casinos! and at the Horseshoe Baltimore Casino, MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Hollywood Casino Perryville and Ocean Dower Casino in Tee. Rocky Gap Casino Resort near Cumberland was the one state casino that reported no players last year.

In a typical case, a player is found with thousands of dollars or a four-figure jackpot, and is ushered inaudibly from the casino's glittering floor into a dark hallway where police are called. And the player's indictment usually proceeds through the dark movement.

Sometimes security staff catches unwanted players before they can enter the gambling room. Many casinos use scanning devices that protect driver's license information, so it can be collected quickly along with a list of unauthorized players.

However, casinos with large video surveillance systems do not believe they need to check a customer's ID if they appear to be over 21 years old, which is the legal age for gambling in Maryland.

White, the director of the Gaming Duties Commission, said casinos would have the opportunity to more aggressively detect excluded players in a variety of ways, for example, if they ask for cash, use an unaltered customer's authorization card, or use VIP services.

When asked about the council's concerns, the owner of MGM National Harbor said, "We take gambling seriously." According to state information, 45 gambling bans were recorded in the second half of 2020, surrounded by Prince George, a 36% increase from the 2019 stage.

Live! - State casinos ranked second in the relief situation. Horseshoe, the third-largest casino operator, through Adept, flatly refused to explain how it was concerned about unauthorized players.

Alan Military, president of Gaming USA, which publishes industry information-voting notes, said that in fact "police surveillance of self-proclaimed players" is not part of the industry's direct mandate. But casinos have to turn away self-proclaimed players, and checking each player's identity at the entrance leads to long lines, Military added.

"Obviously, if you understand that there is a person who does not allow yourself, you have to eliminate it from there, but" I care about the fact that they provide entertainment.

42-year-old James E. Rogers-Jr., a 42-year-old living in Baltimore, had not been tested when the police and casino stations were recorded on November 24! And I took the jackpot of $ 2. 000. Luck was his life. After receiving the prize money, he was confirmed that he was a sel f-exclusive player, and the police charged him for trespassing. Rogers, who has refused the interview for this memo, will answer allegations on May 5 in the Alandel court.

Like all the confiscated jackpots, $ 2, 000 was transferred to the gamblin g-addicted fund. In the economic year ended on June 30, the amount of funds, including the daily allowance paid by the casino, reached almost $ 38 million -, in principle, the casino was covered in three months.

In the state law, unauthorized players are obliged to give not only personal victory but also "failed items and prizes." This basically means that you have the obligation to pass the chips that you bought as calculated, and sometimes the tip of $ 1, 000.

But the polite process to get the player chips does not happen every time.

On the day of Thanksgiving, a 3 3-yea r-old man entered a live casino from Baltimore! According to the casino outline, the chips were purchased for the required amount of $ 2, 000. He presented an ID card at the entrance, but did not stop.

He still had a $ 2, 000 chips and had $ 100 in addition to it, but this was seen as a sel f-style player, so a security inspector took him to a distant passage. At that time, he won the game table.

Later, he refused to give the tip. From the casino and the state --- He later, including the supervisor employee, the report of the case was 20 minutes under the instructions that did not have the opportunity to believe that he had handed over the chip. The detailed "The rules explained."

The police around Ann Arandel, who accused him of illegal invasion, rejected the casino supporters and supervisors that confiscated their chips. The man reported that he was allowed to leave the earth with his chips in hand.

The player who left Sun did not work for the explanation, but the police actually said that a casino employee said "he put him in", he could buy all the chips and the police accusation. Is told.

His hearing was scheduled for May 3 in the court, An-Arandel.

The National Police Agency refused to consider this issue in his statement. The role of the police in the casino is "compliance with criminal law and ensuring social security." The casino decisively abandoned the explanation and asked questions about the exception list to the gambling bureau.

The State Secretariat said that the program has "helped thousands of people," from the beginning of 2011. Men are men within 70 % of members, most of which are 35-54 years old.

Benjamin Herbust, Defender from Baltimore, has benefited more than 20 players who have fallen on the exceptional list.

"Most of the people who hire me are the best educated masters," Herbust says. "I have a professional license and have a tolerant of work. I have a specific number of those who have two or three of these fines for one year. [For no n-restricted compliance].

The players who have refused to give their chips are among those who are more than one or more. November 25, the day before going to "Live!" The day before Go to Go, he went to MGM National Herber Casino surrounded by Prince Jald. According to a court material, he is also charged with trespassing.

When registered in the exclusion program in January 2020, Luon believed that his weakness in gambling had already been resolved.

According to her text, she has been playing gambling with her husband ("Love of My Life") during this holiday. The casino is still involved with the partner she fades out because she had bladder cancer in 2017.

On the weekend of Tika Day in 2020, Louon broke down, experiencing himself for pandemic.

"Lonely is dangerous," she said. < SPAN> The National Police Agency refused to consider this issue in his statement. The role of the police in the casino is "compliance with criminal law and ensuring social security." The casino decisively abandoned the explanation and asked questions about the exception list to the gambling bureau.