Cell phone ban lifted in Las Vegas Sportsbooks
They are going to review this for one year, to see how well it works out.
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Cell Phone Ban Lifted In Sports Books
Gaming Commission Lifts Ban For 1 Year
POSTED: 7:35 pm PDT August 21, 2008
UPDATED: 11:01 pm PDT August 21, 2008
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- A decade-old ban on use of cell phones and other electronic devices inside Nevada sports books has been lifted for one year by the state Gaming Commission.
Commission Chairman Pete Bernhard said regulators realize there's a lot of "purely innocent use of cell phones in casinos" and that casino patrons using the phones often don't understand why they're told to stop.
But Bernhard said cell phone use in the sports books will be monitored during the one-year suspension to ensure people with "less than pure motives" aren't using them for illegal activity such as messenger betting, in which a person is paid to place bets for others.
It's illegal for someone on the phone in a legal book to make bets for a person on the other end of the call -- typically in another state.
Critics said the cell phone ban is outdated -- and there's the problem of annoying people who happen to be in a sports book when they place or take a cell phone call to or from a family member or friend.
Gaming Commission Lifts Ban For 1 Year
POSTED: 7:35 pm PDT August 21, 2008
UPDATED: 11:01 pm PDT August 21, 2008
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- A decade-old ban on use of cell phones and other electronic devices inside Nevada sports books has been lifted for one year by the state Gaming Commission.
Commission Chairman Pete Bernhard said regulators realize there's a lot of "purely innocent use of cell phones in casinos" and that casino patrons using the phones often don't understand why they're told to stop.
But Bernhard said cell phone use in the sports books will be monitored during the one-year suspension to ensure people with "less than pure motives" aren't using them for illegal activity such as messenger betting, in which a person is paid to place bets for others.
It's illegal for someone on the phone in a legal book to make bets for a person on the other end of the call -- typically in another state.
Critics said the cell phone ban is outdated -- and there's the problem of annoying people who happen to be in a sports book when they place or take a cell phone call to or from a family member or friend.