Nevada casinos to allow cell phones and online laptops in sportsbooks

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Last week the Nevada Gaming Commission decided to remove the ban on communications equipment, including cell phones, in sportsbooks. Improving technology made the rule harder and harder to enforce, while also making the necessity for the rule largely obsolete.

Since the advent of cell phones, casinos have levied rules against their use inside the sports books. Whenever a patron would unthinkingly flip open his phone, a casino employee would promptly appear, and politely remind the forgetful gambler that no phones were allowed inside the race and sports area.

This week the Nevada Gaming Commission decided to remove the ban on communications equipment, including cell phones, in sportsbooks. Improving technology made the rule harder and harder to enforce, while also making the necessity for the rule largely obsolete.

Nevada claims to be sensitive to the issue of phone use for illegal wagering; that is, to allow messenger betting, in which case the purchaser of the wager is acting on behalf of another party, or interstate gambling, in which bets are transferred across state lines. To demonstrate a desire to closely watch this problem, the commission only suspended the cell ban for a year, to study the result before permanently lifting the rule.

However, casinos were also aware of their vulnerability to conspiring gamblers that may be comparing lines up and down the Las Vegas Strip, searching for the "middle" when a line was moved slower at one casino while another updated rapidly. By using the most advanced systems, casinos no longer worry that results of an event might be called to a player while the casino lags behind, or that line changes may be caught and acted upon by players before sportsbook management reacts.

Combine that with advances like wireless Bluetooth devices, and both the necessity and the ability to spot and prevent cell communication are gone. Sportsbook managers say they will still ask patrons to observe cell rules at ticket counters, to show respect for the law against taking interstate play; but otherwise, calling is now wide open. Even wireless laptops are expected to be allowed, giving online info to bettors doing research. Yogonet.com

Über Glücksspiele Las Vegas - Gambling in Las Vegas:

Las Vegas liegt im Westen der USA im Bundesstaat Nevada und ist das Glücksspiel-Paradies von Amerika.

Las Vegas hat rund 100 Spielcasinos. Im Bundesstaat Nevada sind sogar über 300 Spielcasinos registriert. Die grössten Casinos sind das Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Venetian / Palazzo, Wynn / Encore, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay.

Weitere bekannte Casinos sind das Mirage, frühere Heimat von Siegfried und Roy, das Luxor in Form einer Pyramide oder das Casino Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, in welchem jährlich die Pokerweltmeisterschaft (World Series of Poker WSOP) durchgeführt wird.

Die bekanntesten zwei Strassen sind der Las Vegas Boulevard, welcher auch als Las Vegas Strip bezeichnet wird. Daneben ist die Fremont Street eine gut besuchte Casino-Meile, wo beispielsweise das legendäre Casino Binion's (vormals Binion's Horseshoe) seine Spiele anbietet.

Las Vegas erstreckt sich über eine Fläche von 340 km2 und hat rund 650'000 Einwohner.

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