Opening a casino, involving a total amount of 6.5438 million yuan, shall be punished with a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined, and the gambling funds used for gambling shall be confiscated. The crime of opening a casino refers to whether there is an objective behavior of gathering people to gamble, opening a casino, or taking gambling as a profession. The meaning of "open" should be understood in a broad sense. In addition to the traditional business of providing places for gamblers, setting gambling methods, providing gambling tools and chips, and accepting bets from gamblers for others to gamble, setting up gambling websites on the computer network, or acting as an agent for gambling websites, accepting bets, and gambling over the phone, but If the participants are not gathered together, it also belongs to the casino. Providing entertainment venues such as chess and card rooms and charging only normal venue and service fees does not constitute this crime.
Legal objectivity:
Article 303 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"* * *Whoever gathers a crowd to gamble or engages in gambling for profit shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years , criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined. Anyone who opens a casino shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years, and shall also be fined.