As reported on the 5^th of September, the leading industry’s supplier of live dealer casino games Evolution Gaming has finally obtained its online gaming license to provide its full suite of live casino games in the state of Pennsylvania. This Interactive Gaming Manufacturer license was granted by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board or for short the PGCB.

Thanks to being granted this license, the Sweden-based online casino content supplier can offer its live casino games and service on behalf of online gaming operators via its live studio in the state of Pennsylvania whose planned construction is already underway. It should be noted that Evolution Gaming is the very first live dealer games provider to be awarded an online gaming license in two US states. Before being granted a gaming license by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, the company has already gained its license by the New Jersey’s regulator.

Premier Supplier of Live Dealer Casino Games

As previously mentioned, Evolution Gaming is doubtlessly one of the leading live casino games providers in the industry. The company was established back in 2006 and ever since its beginnings, it has made a greatly reputable name for itself especially thanks to its constant innovation and creativity brought to the live casino gaming sector. In fact, Evolution Gaming made this sector evolve in many ways thanks to its fearless approach to exploring new things which eventually made the company one of the rising stars.

Evolution Gaming is mainly focused on developing live casino games which are today available across hundreds of online casino operators. Their games are broadcasted from the company’s full-fledged studios. They employ all sorts of user-friendly features complete with extremely friendly, professional and knowledgeable dealers.

Some of the most popular Evolution Games-powered titles includes varieties of roulette, blackjack and baccarat including Immersive Roulette, European Roulette, French Roulette, Speed Roulette, Double Ball Roulette, Lightning Roulette, Dual Play Roulette, Auto Roulette, American Roulette, Bet Behind Blackjack, Perfect Paris, Blackjack Party, Pre-Decision Blackjack, Baccarat Squeeze, Baccarat Control Squeeze, Speed Baccarat, and Multi-Camera Baccarat.

Loads of Live Dealer Games at One Place

Besides these live casino games mentioned above, Evolution Gaming has also crafted a variety of other live casino games including Live Dream Catcher, Lightning Dice, Monopoly Live, Infinite Blackjack, Free Bet Blackjack, Deal Or No Deal, Super Sic Bo, Dragon Tiger, Casino Hold’em, Live Football Studio, 2 Hand Casino Hold’em, Ultimate Texas Hold’em, Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker, Side Bet City Poker, Caribbean Stud Poker, Three Card Poker, as well as several First Person games including First Person Dream Catcher, First Person Roulette, First Person Lightning Roulette and First Person Blackjack.

Commenting on the news about expanding in the newly regulated Pennsylvania’s iGaming market, the Evolution Gaming’s official James Stern said that demand for the company’s live dealer casino products in the United States has been increasingly growing, so the company is extremely delighted to finally expand its already phenomenal United States operations by opening its Pennsylvania-based independent studio which will sever both land-based and online gaming venues in the state.

He also added that his company plans on maximizing these emerging opportunities in terms of entering this new market the right way. Besides working on the construction of the new studio, Evolution Gaming is also working on doubling the size of its Atlantic City-based studio in order to accommodate more players as new dedicated tables will be incorporated.

Due to underage gambling, The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has reached a decision to sanction two casino operators with fines. The board approved this during a session of consent agreements, related to their Office of Enforcement Counsel. Now, because of neglectful behavior and not complying with mandatory regulations, Sands Casino Resort and the Meadows Racetrack and Casino will have to pay $242,500 in total for offenses relating to allowing underage persons to gamble at their sites.

Penalties for Underage Gambling

Legal age for engaging in gambling activities is 21, a rule set by Pennsylvania state. However, this requirement has been broken by Sands Casino Resort and the Meadows Racetrack and Casino. Despite being offered fake identification, two casino operators will suffer consequences for not detecting this and allowing illegal activities in their operations.

Sands Casino Resort belongs to the Sands Bethworks Gaming, LLC which, with the recent uncovering of underage gaming in their casino facilities, will have to pay $120,000. In addition, their employees granted free slot games but weren’t permitted to do so at the time, and now it has resulted in an additional $110,000 fine.

The operator which will also be faced with a monetary penalty is the Meadows Racetrack and Casino. They are owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn National Gaming. Since they’ve only had one incident which involved underage gaming, their fine is significantly smaller. In fact, they are due to pay $12,500 which is a rather insignificant amount compared to the Sands penalty.

Official Press Release

According to a press release, Sands has counted 11 incidents, involving underage gaming. On the record, there were two eighteen-year-old females, visiting casino floor and playing slot games. An eighteen-year-old female was given permission to play table games and consume alcohol. Another case involved a nineteen-year-old female and three nineteen-year-old males, caught on the gaming floor while playing slot games.

A couple of twenty-year-olds were also caught in unlawful transgressions in the casino. Furthermore, one male was enabled to drink alcohol and play tables games while another male had access to slots. On the other hand, a female was able to drink alcohol as well as play slot games. The last case prior to the fine was connected to an 18-year old male who had access to tables games for two days and kept drinking alcohol.

In the Sands case, it’s been revealed that the reason why these transgressions kept on occurring is due to nearby shopping complex, regularly visited by a large number of young people.

When it comes to offering free slots without authorization, it was uncovered that the casino in question gave permission about 6428 times between 2015 and 2016 which reached over $1 million.

As already mentioned, for the Meadows Racetrack and Casino, one incident was uncovered and fined with $12,500. In this particular case, an 18-year old was served alcohol on the gaming floor and was allowed to participate in table games.

Overall, because of the lack of vigilance which resulted in underage gambling and alcohol consumption, both casino operators will have to pay monetary penalties.