The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) has revoked gambling privileges from 18 people, including four adults who left minors unattended while gambling at casino properties.
The individuals were placed on the regulator’s Involuntary Exclusion Lists, which prohibit listed persons from gambling at Pennsylvania casinos, regulated online betting sites and video gaming terminal locations.
The child safety cases involved Valley Forge Casino Resort, Mount Airy Casino Resort, Live! Casino Philadelphia and Hollywood Casino York. According to the PGCB, the minors were left in vehicles or a hotel room for periods ranging from 30 minutes to more than three hours.
One case involved two children, aged eight and 13, left in a vehicle at Valley Forge Casino Resort for 52 minutes. Another involved three children, aged eight, nine and 13, left in a hotel room at Mount Airy Casino Resort for one hour and 48 minutes.
The longest incident cited by the regulator involved a 10-year-old left in a vehicle at Live! Casino Philadelphia for three hours and eight minutes while the adult gambled on slot machines.
The PGCB said leaving children unattended in casino parking areas, hotels or other casino venues creates “a potentially unsafe and dangerous environment.”
The action forms part of the regulator’s continuing “Don’t Gamble with Kids” campaign, launched in 2022 after repeated cases of minors being left alone while adults gambled at Pennsylvania casinos.
The latest exclusions also come as Pennsylvania’s regulated gambling market continues to expand. The PGCB reported record monthly gaming revenue of $625.5m in May 2026, up 3.9% year-on-year, following April revenue of almost $595m.
That growth has increased attention on compliance, player protection and venue-level controls across retail casinos, online betting and VGT operations.
The remaining 14 individuals were added to the Involuntary Casino Exclusion List for other conduct. The latest actions bring the total number of people on the PGCB’s various exclusion lists to 1,481.
In May 2026, the PGCB issued fines totaling $180,000 in May, including penalties against Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment, Wind Creek Bethlehem and Yahoo Fantasy Sports subsidiary YFS Sub over underage gambling, KYC failures and change-of-control notification issues.
The PGCB is scheduled to hold its next public meeting on July 22, 2026 at its hearing room in Harrisburg
