Can You Use Debit/Credit Cards for Casino Gambling?

About a year ago I played in a poker tournament in Delaware where they offered entry payment with a credit card. They have since withdrawn that offer. In the near future will casinos accept credit or debit cards at table games or even slot machines?

When we called the Delaware Lottery, their point man on table games, Richard MacDonald, simply hung up on us, so we’ve reached a dead end in Delaware.

In New Jersey, you're allowed to use credit cards as instruments of payment at slots and table games. “But," says Kerry Langan of the Division of Gaming Enforcement, "I don’t believe many properties are actually doing it.”

In Nevada, debit cards are okay, but credit cards are verboten. “That was a decision of the Legislature,” says Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett. He wouldn’t elaborate, but if memory serves, the idea of allowing credit cards to be used on the gaming floor was shot down due to concerns that it might enable problem-gambling abuse.

“It’s a bit complex,” says MGM Resorts International spokesman Alan Feldman. “Traditional wisdom held that accepting such cards would have a negative impact on problem gambling. An emerging study of this -- not exhaustive by any means -- suggests no such connection. In fact, some would argue that it actually helps people better manage their funds. Additionally, there has been rapidly growing generational shifts as it relates to use of credit/debit cards. We are, it seems, becoming a cashless society and all businesses will need to adapt accordingly.”

How does it work in your state? Can you use you debit or credit cards to play casino games there?

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Jackie Dec-24-2017

Technically

You already can use debit or credit cards at any casino just not at any slot or table game and at an outrageous fee charge either at the in house ATM or at the Cashiers cage,  That's a far cry from the first time I gambled in a casino and tried to use my debit or credit card for more money and was told by the casino to go to the local bank (at 7 pm).  I don't think I would ever use my card in a slot machine like a club card is used but with a receipt, I would at a table game.

George Dec-24-2017

George

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Bumbug Dec-24-2017

Virginia

There are no casinos in Virginia but we do have both PowerBall and MegaMillions along with other lottery games and scratch-off tickets. Many grocery and convenience stores have machines which sell all the different types of tickets. The newer ones of those machines have a card reader along with the statement that the use of debit cards is coming soon. I've seen nothing to tell me when "soon" will be.

O2bnVegas Dec-24-2017

Credit/Debit

The first part of the question concerned a tournament.  Credit cards have been accepted in Las Vegas for entry fees for tournaments.  The rest of the question concerned (I think) the use of credit/debit cards at tables/slot machine.  Not a good thing, IMO.

ClarkKent Dec-24-2017

Debit/credit-cards

If I were managing a casino, I’d be worried about the protections offered to debit/credit card users. What if someone disputes the charges? Seems to me that most casinos would opt to avoid that possible pitfall.

Kevin Rough Dec-24-2017

Pennsylvania

The PA Lottery has started Powerball and Mega Millions tickets through gasoline pumps using the same credit card that you use to pay for your gas.  If you win, winnings are to be automatically returned to the card that was used to pay.  I did it once to see.  Your numbers print on the same paper as the gas receipts.  Alas, I didn't match any numbers.

Casinos don't accept credit/debit cards, although I can accress money from my checking account at a few of the local casinos by setting up an account with VIP Preferred.  I can use that same account at many of the Stations casinos in Vegas.

Roy Furukawa Dec-24-2017

SlotTournaments

I’ve entered slot tournaments where they take a credit card for the entry fee in Nevada, but otherwise it’s the ATM or use the credit card for a cash advance at the cage, but the fees are outrageous.

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