Shouldn't a casino be held liable for enabling a player's financial demise, whether on his own dime or through embezzlement or theft? asked Inquirer columnist Monica Yant Kinney. But casino operators have long argued that it's not their job to police player behavior, saying that it's too hard to determine who can afford that $10,000 bet and who cannot. "Suppose that tax collector had inherited money, suppose he made a bundle on a house sale," explained Ed Ellers, a retired casino CEO who now donates his time to Temple's Beasley School of Law by teaching gaming law. "You never know where people's money comes from," he said.