The panel that regulates Deadwood gaming in South Dakota has refused to remove the name of a Rapid City poker player from a list of people who are no longer allowed to be in any of the licensed gaming establishments in Deadwood.

Rick Burleson wanted the South Dakota Commission on Gaming to take his name off its exclusion list. But the commission on Wednesday rejected his request, after receiving testimony from Burleson and one of the commission’s agents, Brian Swets, and then reviewing the matter in closed-door executive session.

An excluded person who goes into a casino could face a class-one misdemeanor charge punishable by up to one year in county jail and a fine of up to $2,000.