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Learn how to spot counterfeit bills. Large-faced hundreds are unlikely to be counterfeit. If it's a new bill, hold it to the light...look for Mr. Franklin's reflection in the upper right and a strip that says "USA 100 USA 100" on the left. Make sure the serial numbers match. If all these are in place, you don't have a counterfeit bill.

Jeff

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Jeffage, thats hardly foolproof. There are fakes that can pass even that ammount of scrutiny. Although it will weed out the majority of them. However doing this when cashing out a couple dimes is quite impractical.

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Play at a less strict casino if you are underage? Do you actually arrest people for that there? It seems there are discussions about this all the time on the forums here and the worst result (as long as no fake IDs are involved) is getting booted from the casino. Of course you could have her arrested but would you really have done that?


[/ QUOTE ] It's not up to me, but I do feel that if your in the casino underage your aware of what could happen. The reason why most underage people are booted is because they're not dumb enough to show an I.D. showing their underage. If they did they would go to jail. If the question is "Would I turn in someone I knew to be underage?", the answer is undoubtably yes.

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The moral of the story?

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Don't rely on security to card the players, do so yourself if you are the supervisor.

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On a personal note I feel like gaming is for those 21 and over. It makes me sick to even see people bring kids to the buffet. A casino is adult entertainment and no place for kids. I love the game of poker and its great that T.V. has brought a whole new generation into the game. For those that are under 21? If you can find a legal place to play thats great but most casinos are 21 and over and I strongly support it staying that way. The vast majority of under 21 year olds don't have earning potential to sustain any kind of loss. This can lead to big problems down the road, credit for example. The legal age was set for a reason.

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I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that it was convenient for casinos in many states to be 21+ in order to make it easier to get a liquor license. There's your reason. Maybe just my take though, but it is quite a coincidence.

It always saddens me to hear how many people are so dead-set against allowing people under 21 to play, and in essence implying that they aren't capable of understanding the inherent risk that any form of gambling takes. 18-year-olds are old enough to sign up to fight in the military, and that carries, as we know, the greatest risk of all. Yes, you are correct sir, many 18-year-olds don't have the earning power to sustain high losses. Then again, so do a lot of the 30-year-old construction workers who take their Friday pay to the casino and throw away more than they can afford, too. Therefore, I suggest a system of only allowing people who can prove that they can afford a loss of $X, with X being a percentage of their (verified) income, to play at all. This will solve your moral dilemma of whether or not to allow someone who is allowed to drive a car, fight a war, and elect the most powerful elected official in the world, the right to spend their earned money however the hell they please.

I hope that I, as a poker player who started when I was 17 years old and turn 21 this upcoming Tuesday, do not sicken you as much as people who bring children to a buffet.

Uneducated gambling is the problem, not 18+ gambling.

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The moral of the story?

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To realize how one can never get back time spent wasted reading silly posts?

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The legal age was set for a reason.

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How is the federal government's strongarming of states through transportation funding relevant to the issue at hand?

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I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that it was convenient for casinos in many states to be 21+ in order to make it easier to get a liquor license. There's your reason. Maybe just my take though, but it is quite a coincidence.

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Yeah, I believe some casinos in Oklahoma just raised the age to make it easier to enforce the 21 drinking age.

NCAces

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Actually, she's a law student. She was more concerned if she was charged it would show up on her record and harm her in the future. About as far from red-neck as you can get. Very nieive is more like it. Security didn't even check her I.D. until she wrote down her age as 20 on the statement form.

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How is she a law student at age 20?

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That's easy, she must be Dutch Boyd's cousin. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

NCAces

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er, I was referring to the idiots who work at the casino.