1 1 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 2 CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 5 PUBLIC MEETING NO. 08-03-19 6 7 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8 9 Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10 Atlantic City Commission Offices 11 Joseph P. Lordi Public Meeting Room - First Floor 12 Tennessee Avenue and Boardwalk 13 Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401 14 10:30 a.m. to 10:44 a.m. 15 16 17 Certified Court Reporter: Darlene Sillitoe 18 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 19 20 ATLANTIC CITY COURT REPORTING, LLC 21 CERTIFIED COURT REPORTERS AND VIDEOGRAPHERS 22 1125 ATLANTIC AVENUE, SUITE 416 23 ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY 08401 24 (609) 345-8448 www.accourtreporting.com 25 2 1 B E F O R E : 2 CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION: LINDA M. KASSEKERT, CHAIR 3 MICHAEL A. FEDORKO, COMMISSIONER MICHAEL C. EPPS, COMMISSIONER 4 RALPH G. FRULIO, COMMISSIONER 5 PRESENT FOR THE CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION: 6 DARYL W. NANCE, ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYST DANIEL J. HENEGHAN, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER 7 OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL: 8 DIANNA W. FAUNTLEROY, GENERAL COUNSEL/EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 9 STEVEN M. INGIS, ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL DENIS CORBETT, SENIOR COUNSEL 10 LON E. MAMOLEN, SENIOR COUNSEL BERNADETTE T. FRIGEN, PROGRAM SUPERVISOR 11 CLAIRE FRANK, PROGRAM SUPERVISOR 12 DIVISION OF GAMING ENFORCEMENT: 13 DEPUTY ATTORNEYS GENERAL BRIAN BISCIEGLIA, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 14 JAMES FOGARTY, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL FREDERICK J. McDONOUGH, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 A P P E A R A N C E S : 2 ITEM NO. 5 DENIS CORBETT, SENIOR COUNSEL FREDERICK J. McDONOUGH, DEPUTY 3 ATTORNEY GENERAL SAMUEL FIRST, ESQ. 4 FOR: RONALD HICKS 5 ITEM NO. 9 CLAIRE FRANK, PROGRAM SUPERVISOR JAMES FOGARTY, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 6 NICHOLAS CASIELLO, ESQ. FOR: MGM MIRAGE, et al. 7 ITEM NO. 10 CLAIRE FRANK, PROGRAM SUPERVISOR 8 JAMES FOGARTY, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL NICHOLAS CASIELLO, ESQ. 9 FOR: MGM MIRAGE 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 4 1 AGENDA PUBLIC MEETING NO. 08-03-19 2 MARCH 19, 2008, 10:30 a.m. ITEM PAGE VOTE 3 1 Ratification of the minutes of 8 9 4 March 5, 2008 2 Applications for employee and casino 5 Service industry license 22 applications remanded 9 9 6 9 applications approved 9 10 Application of Samuel F. Dillard for a 10 11 7 casino key employee license and for qualification as Vice President of Information 8 Technology for Bally's Park Place, Inc., Boardwalk Regency Corporation, Marina 9 Associates and Atlantic City Showboat, Inc. 3 Petition of Trump Taj Mahal Associates, 11 12 10 LLC, Trump Plaza Associates, LLC, and Trump Marina Associates, LLC, for the 11 issuance of a temporary casino key employee license to Christopher Latil, Pursuant to 12 NJSA 5:12-89-(e) and to permit him pursuant to NJAC 19:43-2.6 to assume the duties and 13 exercise the powers of Vice President of Planning and Analysis without first having 14 been found qualified (PRN 0580803) 4 Stipulations of settlement and consent agreements: 15 a) Annette D. Matthews (07-0660-ER) 12 14 b) Martin Owusu (07-0629-ER) 12 14 16 c) Joseph A. Siciliano, Jr. (07-0485-EA) 12 14 d) Vincent Lombardo (07-0345-ER) adj. 17 e) Mark F. McCloskey (07-0436-ER) 12 14 f) Annamarie Donall (07-0505-RC) adj. 18 g) Jorge R. Reyes-Garcia (08-0003-EA) 12 14 h) Danise C. Reid (07-0661-ER) 12 14 19 i) Franklin D. Gates, Jr. (07-0250-RC) 12 14 5 Stipulation of settlement in application 14 15 20 of Automated Currency Instruments, Inc., and qualification of Ronald Hicks (08-0158-SI) 21 6 Petition of Kevin C. Nusso for early 16 17 reapplication (08-0052-RA) 22 7 Applications for suspension: a) Abdullah A. Farooq (08-0192-RC) 18 19 23 b) John E. Stetz, Jr. (08-0191-RC) 18 19 24 25 5 1 CONTINUED AGENDA PUBLIC MEETING NO. 08-03-19 2 MARCH 19, 2008, 10:30 a.m. ITEM PAGE VOTE 3 8 Petition of Harrah Entertainment, Inc., adj. 4 Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., Harrah's Atlantic City Operating Company, LLC, 5 Showboat Atlantic City Operating Company, LLC, Bally's Park Place, Inc., and Boardwalk 6 Regency Corporation requesting permission for Joseph Tyrell to perform the duties and 7 exercise the powers of Regional Vice President of Governmental Affairs for Harrah's 8 Entertainment, Inc., pending plenary qualification (PRN 0500804) 9 9 Consideration of the qualification of 19 21 Cathryn J. Santoro to serve as Senior 10 Vice President and Treasurer of MGM Mirage and Treasurer of Mac Corp., and Mirage 11 Resorts, Inc. 10 Consideration of the qualification of 21 22 12 Daniel J. D'arrigo to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 13 Of MGM Mirage 11 Proposed publication and temporary 23 24 14 adoption of amendments to NJAC 19:46-1.1A (Gaming Chips) 15 12 Proposed adoption of amendments and new 24 25 rules for ultimate Texas Hold 'em 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 6 1 E X H I B I T S : 2 ITEM NO. 2 DESCRIPTION EVD 3 4 EL-1 Remand for hearings 22 license X applications 5 EL-2 Grant 9 licenses X 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 (Exhibits retained by Commission.) 25 7 1 (Public Meeting 08-03-19 was commenced 2 at 10:30 a.m.) 3 MR. NANCE: I'd like to read an opening 4 statement: 5 This is to advise the general public 6 that in compliance with Chapter 231 of the 7 Public Laws of 1975 entitled the "Open Public 8 Meetings Act," the New Jersey Casino Control 9 Commission on October 16th, 2006, filed with 10 the Secretary of State at the State House in 11 Trenton an annual meeting schedule. On October 12 16th, copies were mailed to subscribers. 13 Members of the press will be permitted 14 to take photographs, and we would ask that this 15 be done in a manner which is not disruptive or 16 distracting to the Commission. 17 The use of cellular telephones in the 18 public meeting room while the Commission is in 19 session is prohibited. 20 Any members of the public who wish to 21 address the Commission will be given the 22 opportunity to do so before the Commission 23 adjourns for the day. 24 Please stand for the Pledge of 25 Allegiance. 8 ITEM NO. 1 1 (The flag salute was recited.) 2 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Good morning. 3 MR. NANCE: Good morning. The matters 4 discussed in closed session were: Employee 5 license matters. 6 The Commissioners approved the March 7 5th, 2008, closed session minutes. Litigate 8 update regarding Gloria Ford versus the State 9 of New Jersey and the Casino Control 10 Commission, et al.; 11 Tyron J. Floyd versus the Casino Control 12 Commission and Sands Hotel Casino;. 13 Husain versus the Casino Control 14 Commission, et al.; 15 And in the manner of the petition of SD 16 for removal from the voluntary exclusion list; 17 Petition of Tropicana, et al., for 18 renewal of casino license; 19 And application of Dana White for a 20 renewal of a casino employee license. 21 Item No. 1, ratification of the minutes 22 of March 5th, 2008, public meeting. 23 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Motion to 24 approve. 25 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Second. 9 ITEM NO. 2 1 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 2 made and seconded. All in favor? 3 (Ayes.) 4 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 5 (No response.) 6 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 7 MR. NANCE: Item No. 2, applications for 8 employee and casino service industry license. 9 This agenda item will be entered as -- 10 excuse me. This agenda item will be entered as 11 Exhibit List 1 and 2. Exhibit List 1 consists 12 of 22 applications for initial and/or renewal 13 of casino employee key and casino employee 14 licenses. 15 The Division has objected to licensure. 16 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Motion to remand 17 for hearings. 18 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 19 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 20 made and seconded. All in favor? 21 (Ayes.) 22 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 23 (No response.) 24 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 25 MR. NANCE: Exhibit List 2 consists of 10 ITEM NO. 2 1 nine applications for initial and/or renewal of 2 casino key and casino employee licenses. 3 Staff and the Division has recommended 4 that these licenses be granted. 5 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Motion to grant 6 applications. 7 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 8 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 9 made and seconded. All in favor? 10 (Ayes.) 11 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 12 (No response.) 13 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 14 MR. NANCE: For consideration is the 15 application of Samuel F. Dillard for a casino 16 key employee license and for qualification as 17 Vice President of Information Technology for 18 Bally's Park Place, Inc., Boardwalk Regency 19 Corp., Marina Associates, and Atlantic City 20 Showboat, Inc. 21 Staff and the Division have recommended 22 that this license be granted. 23 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Motion to grant 24 initial key license and for qualification. 25 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 11 ITEM NO. 3 1 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion is made and 2 seconded. This is a roll call vote. 3 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Frulio? 4 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Yes. 5 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Fedorko? 6 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Yes. 7 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Epps? 8 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Yes. 9 MR. NANCE: Chair Kassekert? 10 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Yes. 11 MR. NANCE: The record will reflect that 12 the motion is unanimous. 13 Item No. 3, Petition No. 3230701 of 14 Trump Taj Mahal Associates, LLC, Trump Plaza 15 Associates, LLC, and Trump Marina Associates, 16 LLC, to request the issuance of a temporary 17 casino key employee license to Christopher 18 Latil pursuant to NJSA 5:12-89(e) and to permit 19 him pursuant to NJSA -- excuse me -- NJAC 20 19:43-2.6 to assume the duties and exercise the 21 powers of Vice President of Planning and 22 Analysis without having been first found 23 qualification. 24 The staff recommended that this petition 25 be granted. 12 ITEM NO. 4 1 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Motion to grant 2 temporary key license and qualification. 3 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 4 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion is made and 5 seconded. This is a roll call vote. 6 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Frulio? 7 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Yes. 8 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Fedorko? 9 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Yes. 10 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Epps? 11 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Yes. 12 MR. NANCE: Chair Kassekert? 13 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Yes. 14 MR. NANCE: The record will reflect that 15 the motion is unanimous. 16 Item No. 4, stip -- excuse me. Yes. 17 Item No. 4, petition of stipulation of 18 settlement and consent agreements. 19 When I call your name, please come 20 forward, stand behind this middle table, 21 spreading across the room so that you may be 22 seen: Annette Matthews, Martin Owusu, Joseph 23 Siciliano, Jr., Mark McCloskey, Jorge Garcia, 24 Danise Reid, Franklin Gates, Jr. 25 Stipulation of settlement in Vincent 13 ITEM NO. 4 1 Lombardo and Annamarie Donall has been 2 adjourned. 3 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 4 Has everyone whose name has been called 5 come forward at this time? 6 I'm going to ask that you each state 7 your name for the record, starting with you, 8 ma'am? 9 MS. MATTHEWS: Annette Matthews. 10 MR. SICILIANO: Joseph Siciliano. 11 MS. REID: Danise Reid. 12 MR. REYES-GARCIA: Jorge R. Reyes. 13 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 14 In a moment we're going to vote on the 15 stipulation which you've agreed to with the 16 Division of Gaming Enforcement. I'm going to 17 ask at this point if any of you wish to be 18 heard on your matter. You don't have to say 19 anything if you don't wand to. 20 Does anyone wish to be heard? 21 (No response.) 22 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Okay. Thank you. 23 Mr. Biscieglia? 24 MR. BISCIEGLIA: Thank you, Chair. Good 25 morning, Chair, Commissioners 14 ITEM NO. 5 1 The Division has nothing further to add 2 and ask that the stipulations be adopted as 3 submitted. 4 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 5 Any questions? 6 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Move to approve 7 stipulations. 8 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 9 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 10 made and seconded. All in favor? 11 (Ayes.) 12 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 13 (No response.) 14 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 15 Thank you very much for coming. Good 16 luck. 17 FROM THE FLOOR: Thank you. 18 MR. NANCE: Item No. 5, stipulation of 19 settlement in application of Automated Currency 20 Instruments, Inc, and qualification of Ronald 21 Hicks. 22 Mr. Corbett? 23 MR. CORBETT: Good morning, Chair, 24 Commissioners. 25 Approval of the stipulation of 15 ITEM NO. 5 1 settlement in this case will result in the 2 granting of the CSI license application. 3 Mr. Samuel First is here for the 4 Applicant and Rick McDonough for the Division. 5 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 6 Mr. First? Anything you'd like to say 7 this morning? 8 MR. FIRST: All we'd like to say is we 9 ask the Commission approve the stipulation. 10 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 11 Mr. McDonough? 12 MR. McDONOUGH: Same for me. 13 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 14 Any questions? 15 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Motion to approve 16 the stipulation of settlement and grant the 17 casino service industry license application 18 pursuant to Section 92(a) of the Act and 19 subject to the condition in the order. 20 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Second. 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 22 made and seconded. All in favor? 23 (Ayes.) 24 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 25 (No response.) 16 ITEM NO. 6 1 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 2 Thank you. 3 MR. McDONOUGH: Thanks. 4 MR. FIRST: Thank you. 5 MR. NANCE: Item No. 6, petition of 6 Kevin Nusso for early reapplication. 7 Miss Frigen? 8 MS. FRIGEN: Good morning, Madame Chair, 9 Commissioners. 10 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Good morning. 11 MS. FRIGEN: Mr. Nusso is present. I 12 would ask him to have a seat at the table. 13 For your consideration is his petition 14 seeking permission to reapply early for a 15 license, registration and/or noncredential 16 hotel employment. 17 The prior Commission revocation order 18 stemmed from his failure to be fingerprinted. 19 He has since filed his petition requesting 20 permission to make early reapplication, and as 21 part of that filing, the Commission staff did 22 require that he be fingerprinted. And the 23 Division offered their position that they have 24 no objection to this petition provided that he 25 did so. And he is here today. 17 ITEM NO. 6 1 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 2 Mr. Nusso, is there anything you'd like 3 to say today? 4 MR. NUSSO: No, thank you. I'm -- 5 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Mr. Biscieglia? 6 MR. BISCIEGLIA: Thank you, Chair. 7 The Division understands that Mr. Nusso 8 has been fingerprinted and has no objection to 9 his petition. 10 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 11 Any questions? 12 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Move to grant Mr. 13 Nusso permission to reapply early for a casino 14 employee license, a casino service employee 15 registration, and/or to obtain employment as a 16 noncredential hotel employee. 17 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 18 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 19 made and seconded. All in favor? 20 (Ayes.) 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 22 (No response.) 23 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 24 Thank you for coming. Good luck. 25 MR. NUSSO: Thank you. Thank you. 18 ITEM NO. 6 1 MS. FRIGEN: You're welcome. 2 MR. NANCE: Item No. 7, application for 3 suspension for Abdullah Farooq and John Stetz, 4 Jr. 5 Mr. Frigen? 6 MS. FRIGEN: Good morning, Madame Chair, 7 again. 8 Let me confirm for the record whether 9 Abdullah Farooq or John Stetz is present or 10 represent? Okay. 11 I just want to note for the record I was 12 not expecting Mr. Stetz to appear, but I just 13 wanted to double check. Lou Barbone is his 14 attorney and had called us indicating that they 15 would not be contesting the application for 16 suspension. 17 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 18 Mr. Biscieglia, you may proceed. 19 MR. BISCIEGLIA: Thank you. 20 The only thing the Division would add in 21 support of our -- or in addition to our 22 suspension applications is that both of these 23 matters are currently pending a grand jury with 24 no date set. 25 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 19 ITEM NO. 8-9 1 Any questions for Mr. Biscieglia? 2 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Motion to suspend 3 credentials. 4 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Second. 5 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Second. 6 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 7 made and seconded. All in favor? 8 (Ayes.) 9 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 10 (No response.) 11 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 12 MR. BISCIEGLIA: Thank you. 13 MR. NANCE: Item No. 8 has been 14 adjourned. 15 Item No. 9, consideration of the 16 qualification of Cathryn J. Santoro to serve as 17 Senior Vice President and Treasurer of MGM 18 MIRAGE, Treasurer of MAC Corp. and Mirage 19 Resorts, Inc. 20 Miss Frank? 21 MS. FRANK: Good morning, Chair and 22 Commissioners. 23 Cathryn Santoro received your temporary 24 qualification in October of last year. A draft 25 resolution on her plenary qualification has 20 ITEM NO. 9 1 been circulated to the parties. 2 We have Nick Casiello here for MGM 3 MIRAGE and Jim Fogarty for the Division. 4 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Good morning, Mr. 5 Casiello? 6 MR. CASIELLO: Good morning. 7 And I've reviewed the form of the 8 resolution, and it is acceptable. 9 Thank you. 10 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 11 Mr. Fogarty? 12 MR. FOGARTY: Good morning, 13 Commissioners. 14 We recommended that you qualify Cathryn 15 Santoro to be Senior Vice President and 16 Treasurer of MGM MIRAGE, treasurer of MAC 17 Corp., and Treasurer of MGM Resorts, Inc., and 18 I've seen Claire's draft resolution and urge 19 you to adopt it. 20 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 21 Any questions? 22 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Madame Chair, I move 23 that we adopt the draft resolution and find 24 Cathryn J. Santoro qualified to serve as Senior 25 Vice President and Treasurer of MGM MIRAGE, and 21 ITEM NO. 10 1 Treasurer of MAC Corp. and Mirage Resorts, Inc. 2 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Is there a second? 3 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 4 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion is made and 5 seconded. This a roll call vote. 6 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Frulio? 7 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Yes. 8 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Fedorko? 9 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Yes. 10 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Epps? 11 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Yes. 12 MR. NANCE: Chair Kassekert? 13 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Yes. 14 MR. NANCE: The record will reflect that 15 the motion is unanimous. 16 Item No. 10, consideration of the 17 qualification of Daniel J. D'arrigo to serve as 18 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial 19 Officer of MGM MIRAGE. 20 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Miss Frank? 21 MS. FRANK: Daniel D'arrigo received 22 temporary qualification in October of last year 23 as well, and a draft resolution on his plenary 24 qualification has been circulated to the 25 parties. 22 ITEM NO. 10 1 Again, Nick Casiello and Jim Fogarty. 2 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Mr. Casiello? 3 MR. CASIELLO: And, again, I have no 4 objection to the form of that resolution. 5 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 6 Mr. Fogarty? 7 MR. FOGARTY: And, again, we in writing 8 recommended that you qualify Mr. D'arrigo to 9 serve as a CFO and Executive Vice President of 10 MGM MIRAGE. 11 I've seen the draft resolution and urge 12 you to adopt it. 13 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 14 Any questions? 15 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Madame Chair, I move 16 that we adopt the draft resolution and find 17 Daniel J. D'arrigo qualified to serve as 18 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial 19 Officer of MGM MIRAGE. 20 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion is made and 22 seconded. This a roll call vote. 23 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Frulio? 24 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Yes. 25 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Fedorko? 23 ITEM NO. 11 1 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Yes. 2 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Epps? 3 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Yes. 4 MR. NANCE: Chair Kassekert? 5 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Yes. 6 MR. NANCE: The record will reflect that 7 the motion is unanimous. 8 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 9 MR. CASIELLO: Thank you. 10 MR. FOGARTY: Thank you. 11 MR. NANCE: Item No. 11, proposed 12 publication and temporary adoption of 13 amendments to NJAC 19:46-1.1A. 14 Mr. Mamolen? 15 MR. MAMOLEN: I'm pinch hitting for Seth 16 Briliant here today. 17 This matter is before you for both 18 publication and temporary adoption. It would, 19 in essence, authorize a $25,000 gold-colored 20 gaming chip. By doing so, it would reduce the 21 color tolerances for the $20,000 mustard yellow 22 one. 23 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 24 Any questions for Mr. Mamolen? 25 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Motion to a -- 24 ITEM NO. 12 1 okay. Go ahead. 2 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Motion to approve 3 for publication and temporary adoption. 4 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Second. 5 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Second. 6 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 7 made and seconded. All in favor? 8 (Ayes.) 9 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 10 (No response.) 11 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 12 MR. NANCE: Item No. 12, proposed 13 adoption of amendments and new rules for 14 Ultimate Texas Hold 'em. 15 Mr. Mamolen? 16 MR. MAMOLEN: This one is before you for 17 final adoption. It's another in a series of 18 games, variations of regular hold 'em game in 19 the poker rooms, this one being dealt against 20 the house. Pretty straight forward. It's a 21 pretty good representation of the way hold 'em 22 is played in the poker room, and it's adapted 23 to the game against the house. 24 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 25 Any questions? 25 ITEM NO. 12 1 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Adopt as 2 published. 3 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 4 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 5 made and seconded. All in favor? 6 (Ayes.) 7 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 8 (No response.) 9 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 10 MR. MAMOLEN: Thank you. 11 MR. NANCE: In accordance with 12 Resolution No. 07-12-12-26, the next closed 13 session of the Commission shall be held on 14 Wednesday April the 2nd, 2008, at 9:15 a.m. in 15 the Commission offices. 16 It is now time for the public 17 participation portion of the meeting. 18 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Is there anyone from 19 the public who wishes to be heard? 20 (No response.) 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Seeing no one, I'll 22 declare this portion of the meeting closed and 23 entertain a motion to adjourn. 24 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Motion to 25 adjourn. 26 1 COMMISSIONER FRULIO: Second. 2 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been 3 made and seconded. All in favor? 4 (Ayes.) 5 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 6 (No response.) 7 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion carries. 8 (Public meeting was adjourned at 10:44 9 a.m.) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 1 2 C E R T I F I C A T E 3 4 5 I, DARLENE SILLITOE, a Certified Court 6 Reporter and Notary Public of the State of New 7 Jersey, certify that the foregoing is a true 8 and accurate transcript of the proceedings. 9 10 11 I further certify that I am neither 12 attorney, of counsel for, nor related to or 13 employed by any of the parties to the action; 14 further that I am not a relative or employee of 15 any attorney or counsel employed in this case; 16 nor am I financially interested in the action. 17 18 19 DARLENE SILLITOE CCR 20 License No XI01023 21 22 Dated: March 21, 2008 23 My Commission Expires on July 10, 2009 24 ID No 2062871 25