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It is worth noting that the age to gamble here, like most Rhode Island casinos, is just 18 years old. In 2013 Twin River started to expand its gambling options and began offering table games. The Senate has voted and sent to the governor a bill to allow round-the-clock gambling, seven days a week at Twin River, while also forcing the owners of the bankrupt track and slot parlor to drop their plans to suspend live greyhound racing on Aug. 8, and run a full 200-day season.
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LINCOLN — Like so much in these days of the coronavirus, Twin River Casino will look familiar when it reopens Monday, but it won't quite feel the same.
'The gaming experience is similar, just less of it,' Craig Sculos, vice president and general manager, said Friday afternoon during a media tour. He was acknowledging that about two-thirds of the facility's slot machines will be turned off and table games will be off limits.
© Sandor Bodo Patti Doyle, spokeswoman, left, and Craig Sculos, vice president and general manager of Twin River Casino in Lincoln, sit at the player booths for the stadium games. [The Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo]Sculos and Twin River spokeswoman Patti Doyle gave a tour of the company's Lincoln gambling parlor, and similar modifications will be in place at Twin River's casino in Tiverton, Doyle said. The casinos, closed since March 13 because of the virus, will reopen Monday.
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The first clue that things are different will be in the driveway, where would-be gamblers must show their invitation to visit. Invitations will be sent to members of the casino's Players Club loyalty program. On Monday and Tuesday, only people with invitations will be allowed in.
© Sandor Bodo Cameras take photos for facial recognition and thermometers take patrons’ temperature before allowing them to enter the casino. [The Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo]Starting Wednesday, the casino will also allow people who are cashing in tickets enter the casino. Those people will have to show their tickets in the parking lot. They will only be allowed into the area where tickets are redeemed, and they must leave immediately after redeeming them.
© Sandor Bodo Kim Grant, regional executive director of public and community affairs at Twin River, near a rack of face masks available near the casino’s entrance. [The Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo]Invitations, which are good for the Players Club member plus one guest, will be managed so that a maximum of about 1,500 people a day visit the casino.
People with invitations will be assigned one of three entrances to the casino, which will let them into a 'mini casino' that is physically segregated from the rest of the building. Gamblers will wear colored bracelets that identify which of the three mini-casinos they are allowed to be in, and they won't be allowed to move among the three.
Upon entering, gamblers will have to go to a station where a thermal camera will take their temperature and facial-recognition software will see whether they are on a list of people banned from the casino.
Next is a station where gamblers will be given inexpensive face masks, though they are encouraged to bring their own. Wearing masks is required. Gloves are not, but will be available.
Next, they will have their driver's license or identification scanned — only Rhode Island residents are allowed in — so the state Health Department can trace any potential outbreaks of COVID-19, the respiratory ailment caused by the coronavirus. When gamblers leave, they will have their ID scanned again to check out.
Once in their designated mini-casino, gamblers will immediately notice that about two-thirds of the slot machines have been turned off, making it impossible to play next to someone, a sort of baked-in social distancing. They'll also notice no table games are in operation, except for so-called 'stadium' games.
© Sandor Bodo At Twin River Casino in Lincoln, a reminder of the public-health hazards of COVID-19. [The Providence Journal / Sandor Bodo]In a stadium game, gamblers will be stationed at computer terminals six feet apart overlooking terminals on which players will be able to bet on the games being played, displayed on large TV screens.
Other changes at the casino
Instead of 24 hours a day, the casino will be open daily from 10 a.m. to midnight to allow for cleaning.
The entire facility is no-smoking.
Only food courts, not restaurants, will be available. Food will not be allowed out of the food courts. Tables are arranged so that no one can sit within six feet of another person, even if they drove to the casino in the same car.
Beverages must be consumed with a straw. Although beverages will be allowed on the gambling floor, wait staff will not deliver them. 'If I'm seated at a slot machine and I want a beverage, I have to go to the bar,' Sculos said.
How invitations work
Invitations will be good for a two-week period. Invitees can go as often as they like during their two weeks. After the two weeks, they will get back in line for the next window of eligibility.
Sculos declined to say how many people are in the Players Club and how many invitations were sent out so that, accounting for people who decide not to go, they get about 1,500 people.
Both of those numbers will fluctuate as casino operators learn better what percentage of people will respond to invitations and as health officials raise or lower the limit on how many people can be in the casino.
Better customers will get priority for invitations.
Invitations will be sent to evenly distribute people who normally go to the casino in the morning, those who go in the afternoon and those who go in the evening.
How tickets are redeemed
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Two types of tickets can be redeemed by people who have not been invited to gamble at the casino: tickets from the sports book and tickets from slot machines.
For two weeks, from Wednesday until June 24, people redeeming tickets will be allowed to enter the casino from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
After entering the casino and passing the temperature check, they will take an elevator to the third-floor sports-book area, which will be reconfigured into two areas: one for redeeming sports-book tickets and one for redeeming slot-machine tickets.
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Rhode Island added fully mobile sports betting during the 2020 legislature and appears ready to move its operation into the modern-day era.
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The state became the eighth to offer sports betting in 2018, months after the Supreme Court struck down PASPA. In early 2019, lawmakers expanded the existing provisions to include online and mobile betting. Rhode Island launched mobile sports betting with in-person registration in late 2019.
Sports betting apps in Rhode Island
Mobile sports betting in Rhode Island is conducted by the Rhode Island Lottery, powered by William Hill on an IGT platform.
You can download the mobile app and soon will be able to register remotely without visiting Twin River Casino or Twin River Tiverton in person to verify your identity.
You don’t have to be a resident of Rhode Island, but you do have to be within the state’s borders to place a bet.
The original law limited sports betting to in-person at the Twin River casinos, but the legislature soon realized that was a mistake and passed an expansion to allow statewide mobile betting. That bill was signed into law in March 2019.