[slodave]

This should be interesting. Since it's illegal to gamble in Cali (short of reservations), there is no way for the hotel to collect on the debt. My dad (retired lawyer) went through something similar with a client. Client was a Cali resident, but lost 10,000 or so on markers. He died suddenly and when the casino came to collect, my dad (executor of the estate) had to send a letter stating that he could not legally pay off the markers and that if he did, the Cali courts would have gone after him to pay the estate back. The casino never responded back.

Though, that happened many years ago and maybe some of the laws have since changed...