“For our clients, and surely for SugarHouse’s other patrons, the thrill in playing table games at SugarHouse is knowing that while the odds are against them, they can still ‘beat the house,’” said attorney Steven Feinstein in a statement. SugarHouse was fined $85,000 plus costs over these issues.
And at times, the cards had not been shuffled properly - or at all. In other cases, there were too few cards in the decks. In some cases, the PGCB found, dealers had been using decks that contained too many cards.