Easy come, easy go, right? So it was for an Easton, Pa., woman who thought she hit the jackpot at Pennsylvania's Mount Airy Casino in the Poconos for some $3,041 in winnings. Turns out, not so fast.
According to the Pocono Record newspaper, the woman, identified as Danielle Hoagland, 34, was forced to fork over all her winnings to the state's Gaming Control Board.
This, because Hoagland was on a five-year self-exclusion list from Pa. casinos.
So instead of reaping her winnings, Hoagland found herself cited for criminal trespass for being in the casino in the first place, the newspaper reports, citing a Pa. state police news release.
Talk about your rotten luck!
Background from the Pocono Record:
The state gaming control board says self-exclusion is a process that allows a person, typically a problem gambler, to request to be banned from all legalized gaming activities and to be prohibited from collecting any winnings, services or any other thing of value at any licensed facility.
Placement on the list is entirely voluntary and must be done by the individual seeking exclusion. The person filing the request for self-exclusion may request to be excluded from gaming activities for one year, five years of for life.
As a result, Hoagland's winnings will be deposited into the Compulsive and Problem Gambling Treatment Fund.
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