Casino Safety or Fun Ways to Protect Yourself

Introduction to Casino Safety

Ultimately, everyone is responsible for their safety at the casino. We should expect casinos to have operational security in place. We determine whether casino safety is sufficient and, if not, find an alternative casino with satisfactory safety standards.

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Slots Players Often Carry Cash

Why develop this situational awareness for the casino environment? The answer is simple: Slots players carry cash. Unfortunately, even the possibility of carrying cash can be attractive to people with criminal intent.

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This observation is not intended to instill fear but to point out a hard truth. Gambling is a cash business. At some point, when gambling via slot machines at a casino, players are carrying around some cash, i.e., their bankroll.

With this cash in their pocket, they may have parked in a nearby parking structure, then used its elevator to reach the casino entrance. Or maybe they didn’t arrive at the casino with cash but instead withdrew it from an ATM within the casino. When a player arrives at the casino floor with their bankroll, there was a time and distance across which they carried cash.

However, casinos work incredibly hard to provide as safe an environment as they possibly can, everywhere a patron might enjoy gambling in their establishment. But, how? Consider what happens when winning a W-2G jackpot of $1,200 or more.

Players can ask to receive a check or some combination of check and cash. In my experience, it just doesn’t happen very often. In all my time in casinos, where I’ve seen many people win jackpots, I’ve only once seen someone request a check instead of cash.

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And that person was me. Even so, I did so only after winning a car. Even then, it was only for half of the $40,000 cash prize.

Poker players have a good solution: Bring a bag for your items, including cash. Yes, it’ll need to be examined by security upon entering the casino. And, yes, you’ll have to keep an eye on it, but when everyone has one, it becomes inconspicuous.

Casino Security Services

What casino safety services are in place, exactly? Where should a player park, say, in the parking structure or by using the valet service? Or should top-tier players be allowed to park in the priority parking spots often reserved for them?

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What about when leaving the casino? What if you’ve won a jackpot, but didn’t happen to park via the valet service or in priority parking? How exactly do you get from the site of a jackpot to my car in the parking lot or structure?

How much cash is it going to take before a player starts to feel a little nervous? For me, all my initial taxable jackpots made me anxious, even when the largest was “only” $5,000. But I told myself it’d simply been a long time since I’d seen that much cash.

If you’ve decided to go home and are uncomfortable about the amount of cash you’re carrying, press the service button for a slot attendant. Once they arrive, inform them that you need security to escort you to your car. But let’s say that you’re relatively alone in an area of the casino floor.

And suddenly, you need help. In practice, players only have three real options: press the service button on the slot machine they’re sitting at, get the heck out of the area, or yell. A worst-case scenario, the absolute last thing to do, is to get into a physical altercation. 

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Yelling for help is all that is needed in a casino environment, as it serves as both a deterrent to the attacker and a means of summoning assistance. Finally, remember that security cameras have multiple views of every area of the casino. While it may take a moment for security to get to you, it’s all recorded.

Casino Safety IS Casino Reputation

There is no question that individual and family safety is important to you. It’s also essential to casinos, as an incident in which a crime is perpetrated against a casino patron has equally profound consequences for the casino. Possible damage to a casino business includes a loss of reputation and income.

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This situation can occur with both the patron and the patrons involved in an incident. Damage can also happen to all patrons if or when the incident becomes publicly known. Incidents become public knowledge through various means, including news reporting, word of mouth, and possibly gaming regulatory requirements. Ohio’s Casino Control Commission is the legal authority that regulates gaming in the great state of Ohio.

Every state’s gaming commission is different, but Ohio reports on any crimes committed at casinos within that state. Ohio’s Gaming Crimes & Statistics are updated quarterly under the Enforcement tab. If your state provides similar crime statistics, wouldn’t this information impact which casinos you’d visit?

Bring a Friend for Casino Safety

At slots, players focus on a row of machines while having limited peripheral vision. They can see directly forward, where their attention is entirely focused. It is quite possible to be completely unaware, even if someone sits down within a couple of chairs on either side.

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The best practice for being safe at a casino is to take someone along who can stay alert and watchful of the surroundings for a player while they face the slot machine and bet. Plus, if the player’s friends want to play, the first player can watch their back in return. Bringing a companion mitigates many potential safety concerns found within the casino environment.

And it may make the whole experience more pleasurable. A companion can act as a guard, whose mere presence prevents attempts at criminal activity. Playing slot machines isn’t like playing table games, where a casino employee faces the player, and the player is likely part of a group of gamblers.

If you are alone in a casino, then you’ll need to trust and listen to your instincts. They are far more honed than most people understand. Our ancestors have left us with a legacy of amazing survival instincts, whether we are consciously aware of them or not.

So, when relatively alone and someone walks up behind, take a careful look at them. How do they make you feel? What does your gut say?

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Whatever your instinct tells you, trust it.

Summary of Casino Safety

Casinos are very safe places. Players probably don’t need to worry about their safety at most of them. However, like your honor, it’s intrinsically more critical to you than anyone else.

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