Legal Question in Entertainment Law in Pennsylvania

Online gambling addiction

In forty years I have never gambled. About 4 months ago I saw several TV ads for Riverbelle Casino and for some reason decided to give it a try. Now several casino's,and approximately $13,000 later I find myself in financial hardship, And still have thoughts of trying to win my money back, which puts me deeper in debt.Legally Is their anything I can do? Thanks for your time.


Asked on 3/22/06, 9:47 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Roger Traversa Arjont Group (Law Office of Roger Traversa)

Re: Online gambling addiction

First and foremost you need to address your gambling problem. Call one of the gambling helplines and work with them.

Next. Hamper your access to money. If you're married have your wife change all of your accounts and keep the information away from you. Get rid of your credit and debit cards and shred your checkbook. There is no way you can use cash in the overseas casinos and hopefully you can prevent yourself from physically going to a U.S. casino.

Next, you can look at hiring an attorney to try to recoup the money you have already lost. There's no way to tell if it is gone for good or not but there are means to try to recoup funds gambled illegally (offshore and distance gambling is illegal).

I would be happy to work with you to try to recoup your money, but can't give you any type of gurantee on recovery. First contact a gambling addiction recovery helpline and then contact me to see if we can recoup some or all of your money.

Good luck and regards,

Roger Traversa

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Answered on 3/22/06, 11:25 am


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