'We look to the casinos really to serve as the experts on product offerings. 'We are doing today every bit of due diligence that we did with these table games rules when they existed as a regulation,' LaBoy said. The agency said it wants to provide casinos with 'tools to react to changes in the market.'
The process eliminates 'unnecessary steps,' said Charles LaBoy, the state agency's managing director of gaming. Before, any changes would have been subject to legislative review or public comment periods, a process that usually took months.Īdding the 6-5 payout option was among the first changes made under the new rule-making procedure. Casinos are now required to adopt 'standard rules' for table games, and any changes only need approval from the agency's staff. Table game rules used to be set in regulations, but the commission repealed most of them earlier this year. Gordon Medenica, director of the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, projects that the arrival of MGM - expected to draw many gamblers from Virginia across the Potomac River - will mean hundreds of millions of dollars more in state tax revenue in the casino's first full year.
