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Beating the odds in a casino is sometimes only half the battle. In the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between the players and the house, casinos regularly resort to unscrupulous tactics to maximize profits, including the use of coercion and even physical force. Where can gamblers turn when a casino’s done them wrong?
If you’re among the world’s top players, Las Vegas-based gambling-law specialist Bob Nersesian is on your speed dial. As the number-one go-to guy for the world’s elite core of “advantage players,” he’s argued their positions all the way up to the Supreme Court.
“Casinos everywhere like taking shots at ripping off players,"Nersesian says.
But it’s not just pros who find themselves in these disputes. Though millions of people visit hundreds of casinos in the U.S. every year, most have little or no understanding of their rights. Now for the first time, the prerogatives and obligations of gamblers are delineated and explained in the new book The Law for Gamblers—A Legal Guide to the Casino Environment, just released by Huntington Press.
Described by the New York Post as “an aggressive pit bull of a man,” Bob Nersesian is that and more when it comes to taking on the casino Goliaths. The leading practitioner in the field for two decades, Nersesian has brought legal actions against casinos over refusal of jackpot payments, seizure of funds, false imprisonment, assault, and more.
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The Law for Gamblers presents the state of this complex area of the law for the benefit of the millions of customers who patronize casinos across the U.S., academics and students, attorneys and regulators working in the industry, and even the casinos themselves.
From “Indian Gaming: OMG, WTF”
Indian casinos have a license to steal! It’s just that simple. I, personally, have addressed no fewer than 10 incidents on behalf of patrons who were being held by Indian casinos, based on an illegitimate demand for identification, persecution for advantage gambling, or theft of a jackpot.
From “Use of Aliases”
Is it legal to use an alias? Although many courts and most police do not seem to understand this, the simple answer is that the use of an alias to gamble violates no law.
From “Suing Casinos and Casino Security”
A property owner owns only his property and not his patrons; he cannot take them into custody for any or no reason. Imagine locking a guest in your basement against his will, then saying that this was your prerogative, because you grabbed him in your living room.
Review Copies and
Author Interviews
To request a review copy of The Law for Gamblers or to receive more information, obtain high-res images, or arrange an interview with the author, please contact Tanya Maynard at 702-252-0655 or tanya@huntingtonpress.com.
Click here to see the Table of Contents and read an excerpt.
