Massachusetts: While offering family attractions, MGM Springfield works to keep kids off the casino floor

Massachusetts: While offering family attractions, MGM Springfield works to keep kids off the casino floor

Article brief provided by MassLive
  • Jim Kinney, MassLive
February 8, 2023 8:38 PM

MGM’s security team intercepted 76 under-21-year-olds on its casino floor in December, a big jump from the 30 nabbed in November and the 16 stopped in October.

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“This concerned us quite a bit as well,” Augustine Kim, vice president and legal counsel at MGM resorts, said Wednesday.

He and other MGM executives presented security numbers along with updates on spending, hiring and revenues in a quarterly report to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. A copy of the report is available at massgaming.com.

MGM management said one reason there are more younger people sneaking their way into the casino’s 21-and-over gambling areas is that there are more families, and more kids, on the property.