Alleged underage gambling in Sheldon Adelson's casino
A new video suggests the man trying to ban online poker is allowing underage gamblers in his Las Vegas casinos.
Few poker players actually believe Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson genuinely wants to ban online poker to protect underage gamblers. This week evidence has come to light which backs up our scepticism.
Despite being the CEO of a major casino chain in Las Vegas, his Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling claims that young people are vulnerable to the lures of online gambling.
A new video by Tim James appears to show that his own casinos have a very relaxed stance towards underage gambling.
In one scene an underage girl gambles in a Las Vegas Sands casino using a fake ID, in another a 19-year-old man gambles and drinks alcohol in the Venetian without ever being asked for proof of age.
Meanwhile the same girl with the fake ID was unable to create an online poker account five times using the same information, because its security systems would not allow it.
The short video, which is a teaser for a full-length show being released tomorrow, also hints that prostitution is a problem inside Adelson's casinos.
