Gambler sues lotteries corporation
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A Winnipeg woman is suing Manitoba Lotteries Corp., claiming casino staff allowed her to continue gambling for years after she agreed to be banned from the establishments.
Georgina Bauer, a
self-described "compulsive gambler," entered into the Voluntary Exclusion Program in April 1996 but had no trouble
returning to the gaming tables just two weeks later, alleges a lawsuit filed last week.
"In spite of the program and her enrolment therein, she was thereafter continually allowed into the casinos operated by the defendant to gamble without any intervention, even though she was a regular and many of the card dealers and pit bosses she encountered knew her and called her by name," says the lawsuit.
Bauer
alleges she wrote a letter to MLC in December 2000 reminding staff of her enrolment in the exclusion program, to no avail. She says she continued to gamble in city casinos, losing money at blackjack tables, "and never encountered any intervention by the defendant MLC."
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So she entered a program in 1996, only to return to gambling two weeks later (says a lot about the program, doesn't it? :
). Then "alleges" she wrote a letter to MLC,
four years later, but continued to gamble. Why file a lawsuit now? Out of gambling money, honey??
This is just another one of those "it's everybody else's fault but mine" stories.
