I didn’t want to have to see him every day.” “From the very beginning, all I asked was that this man did not come back to the casino. Commenting on the case, the waitress of five years said: While the casino banned the high-roller at the time, the venue subsequently reinstated him just 40 days later, without letting Allyson Pelesky, 28, know in advance. The Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino has just been ordered to pay one of its cocktail waitress $150,000 in compensatory damages, and another $999,000 in punitive damages after a high-rolling patron sexually harassed her back in 2014.