Station Casinos is testing a way for players to fund select slot and bartop machines with Apple Pay at a small number of Las Vegas venues. The trial lets guests tap an iPhone or Apple Watch, or scan a QR code, and turn a debit-card payment into playable credits on the machine.
The system, called TrustedTap, is operating as a Nevada-approved field trial rather than a permanent rollout. The Nevada Gaming Control Board must review any system that electronically transfers money from a financial institution to a gambling device, and the current test cannot spread to additional properties until that review is complete.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Station Casinos partnered with Adostics to build the service around Apple Pay and biometric authentication. Players can move funds directly from a debit card stored in Apple Wallet, and the machine never sees or stores the card number. The trial does not require a separate casino app, gambling wallet or loyalty-account sign-up.
The hardware side is designed to slot into existing casino floors. Adostics developed the A-POD component with Genmega, and the device can be installed on existing machines in minutes. TrustedTap runs alongside the bill validators and ticket-in, ticket-out systems already used in the properties, and any remaining balance or winnings print out in the usual TITO format.
The pilot is live in casino bars at Durango Casino & Resort, across all Seventy Six taverns and at Wildfire Anthem. Players face a $2,000 daily funding limit, though they can set a lower ceiling for themselves. The trial accepts debit cards through Apple Pay and excludes credit cards.
Early reaction has centred on convenience. Brad Egnor, Adostics’ chief marketing officer, said players value not having to carry cash on the casino floor and see that as both a convenience and a security benefit. He also said players have used the responsible-gaming tools built into the trial, including their own wager and 24-hour spending limits.
Resorts World Las Vegas, which opened as the Strip’s first fully cashless casino in June 2021, returned to cash and TITO in March 2026 after nearly five years, citing weak adoption, registration friction and anti-money-laundering concerns. Casino.org quoted Martin Bauer as saying the idea of a casino becoming fully cashless in the next 10 to 15 years is wrong, and that adoption has been much slower than expected.
Nevada regulators are still weighing whether a hybrid, phone-based funding approach avoids the pitfalls associated with Resorts World’s cashless model.
