If you find a chip on a casino floor are you allowed to legally keep it?

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I think that if something is not yours, you should return it to the owner
 
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I would imagine the correct thing to do is return it to the cashier but I suspect most people would pick it up and spend it at the tables. I have never been lucky enough to find one.
 
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I would assume it would be right to return it to the cashier, but I suspect most people would take it and spend it at the table. I've never been lucky enough to find it.
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If someone is looking around the floor for something lost then you could ask them what they lost and if they said they dropped chips then you should give it to them but otherwise go gamble with it
 
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Technically there are laws against it but if you prefer it go into your pocket rather than the casino's who am I to judge. If you see someone drop it, do what you would want done if you had dropped it. Be the changes that you want to see.

If you do find a slot machine with credits on it, and you have no way of finding the person, just do yourself a favor and put a fiver in the machine when you walk up to it. It instantly gives you plausible deniability.

Absolutely do not touch a machine with a chair leaned up against it or some other obvious place holder. This is someone playing who will return shortly.
 
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Technically there are laws against it but if you prefer it go into your pocket rather than the casino's who am I to judge. If you see someone drop it, do what you would want done if you had dropped it. Be the changes that you want to see.

If you do find a slot machine with credits on it, and you have no way of finding the person, just do yourself a favor and put a fiver in the machine when you walk up to it. It instantly gives you plausible deniability.

Absolutely do not touch a machine with a chair leaned up against it or some other obvious place holder. This is someone playing who will return shortly.
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If such a situation happened to you, if you found a $500 chip in the casino, would you return it or not?
 
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If I saw someone drop it, or looking for something as another poster said, I'd give it to them. If not I'd probably tip a dealer with it, and hopefully that's what I'd do even if it were a large denomination. I think I'd feel guilty for doing anything else.
 
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Any monies that are "unattended" are the property of the casino. If you are seen taking that chip, or, let's say, money left in a slot machine, you can and will be prosecuted. I had a friend take a ticket left in a slot machine that was not hers, and she was "banned for life" at Foxwoods
 
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yes sure my friend .its like finding money on the road .its very legal
 
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I think that if something is not yours, you should return it to the owner
If I know who it belongs to, there is no question, I just look for that person and return it. However, if I find a 100 chip on the floor and it does not belong to someone or I can't find the person, it is the same as finding a quarter. It is mine. There is a problem with big denomination chips, especially 5k or over. Those can only be cashed by legitimate high rollers.
 
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Its amazing how much power the casinos have over the left over funds. There is a big difference between fraud and stealing in my opinion and theirs over this. I mean really, they trashed this guy over $0.76 that was a credit left in the machine? Come on dudes.
 
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OK everyone. I just returned from Vegas and while there got into a friendly conversation with a floor man and asked if he could answer this question for me. If you find a slots ticket you could be trespassed from the casino and possibly arrested. He told me they can easily track down the person who the slot ticked belongs to and the eye in the sky can attempt to find the player who lost the chip.

His advice he gave if you found one is to get the attention of a casino employee or you can pick it up hold it out for the eye in the sky to see and walk it to an employee or to the cashier and tell them you found it on the floor and you wont get into trouble. "not sure I would want to do the 2nd option but call them to me" He said the time you would have an issue is if you attempt to play or cash it out.
 
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I think it another player's money and you cannot appropriate them
 
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OK everyone. I just returned from Vegas and while there got into a friendly conversation with a floor man and asked if he could answer this question for me. If you find a slots ticket you could be trespassed from the casino and possibly arrested. He told me they can easily track down the person who the slot ticked belongs to and the eye in the sky can attempt to find the player who lost the chip.

His advice he gave if you found one is to get the attention of a casino employee or you can pick it up hold it out for the eye in the sky to see and walk it to an employee or to the cashier and tell them you found it on the floor and you wont get into trouble. "not sure I would want to do the 2nd option but call them to me" He said the time you would have an issue is if you attempt to play or cash it out.


See folks, no need to agonize over what price your dearly held ethical & moral beliefs become for sale, just remember the cameras. :rolleyes:
 
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I think you can't get out of the casino with this chip there are cameras everywhere
 
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I once found a chip of $1000, no one was looking for it, kept it for myself, changed it for money at the cashier, usually in such institutions people do not bother much, they can lose 10 times more in an hour and then in 100
 
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I once found a chip of $1000, no one was looking for it, kept it for myself, changed it for money at the cashier, usually in such institutions people do not bother much, they can lose 10 times more in an hour and then in 100
I think you were lucky.
There are cameras everywhere in the casinos, if they noticed they could have banned you because it wasn't your chip.
 
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I think you're lucky.
There are cameras everywhere in the casino, if they noticed, they could ban you because it was not your trick.
maybe somehow I didn't think about it)
 
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I think it should be returned to the cashier and told about it, I did not have this situation, but I would like to think that's what I would do
 
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