Forgetting Your Tito

My latest Vegas Bright article.
If you have read some of my TRs you may remember this story....

Forgetting Your TITO

Interesting story Blonde. I probably would have chalked it up as a loss and not have inquired with security but I might try it as a last resort but hopefully I won't have to in the first place.

That's funny because this happened to us just the other day. Not for $500 though.
My wife and I we're getting ready to leave a casino and I heard a slot machine beckoning to me
so I obliged with a $20. I played and had it up for awhile and I was back down to $20 and so
I hit cash out. I remember it reading $20.30 and I didn't pick up the TITO. We were leaving
and I asked her "did I give you that to cash?" So she went to the machine and came back
saying "there's a man playing on it" so I went to the machine and (nicely) asked "sir, did you
see a ticket in this machine when you sat down?" and he replied "no". I told him it was for
$20.30 and he then pulled the folded TITO out of his vest pocket.

Nice hit and great article Blonde4ever!!

JM, good thing you asked the man, his guilty conscience made him reluctantly give it up. The evil head on his left shoulder said "no" but the angel on his right shoulder told him to do the right thing.

I'm glad you got your $500 back - that would have been very disturbing.

I had two variations on that (for a smaller amount):
1) I was playing video poker at the Palms a number of years back, put a $100 bill in the machine. It took it and nothing happened - no credits, nothing to cash out. I hit the service button, and they checked the money drawer and must have looked at video, because after a few minutes they gave me a new hundred. And yes, I put it in that machine and continued playing.
2) I was at our local casino, Mystic Lake, playing, got up for some reason (don't remember what now) and left $100 in the machine. Needless to say, by the time I realized it and went back it was gone. Oh well. Gives you a sinking feeling, but I decided to just wish whoever got it luck with it and went on playing at a different machine.

I try to be more careful now...

;-)

I seem to forget my TITOs and find other's TITO's in about equal proportion. I lose them and find them more than the average person. Overall, I'm up. Forgot a TITO at Gold Coast at the back VP bar. Made it all the way to the race book and returned to the VP bar to find my machine still had my $60 in it. Did lose a $40 TITO at Cosmo. The bartender had my player's card but not my TITO. Another time at Cosmo I forgot my TITO and returned to find a guy playing my machine. I asked him about the TITO for $20 I forgot and he said he didn't notice it at first and put his money on top of it. He reached into his wallet and pulled out a $20 and gave it to me. Was playing at Harrah's Philly and found $60 in the machine three different times. Each time I cashed it out and waited over an hour for someone to return to claim it but no one has. One of the times I found the money in the machine was due to the previous player getting a hand pay and not cashing out the machine.

I have done this 3 times interesting 2 of them were at the Gold Coast VP bar and once in Reno. I was lucky and my TITO was still there upon returning. Just for small amounts .When I hit big I cash out and put a 20 in so as not to dump it all back.

Glad you got your money back.

I once left a ticket for $80.00 in a machine at Paris . About an hour later , I was playing in a different part of the casino , and a slot person came up to me and said are you -----? I said in a joking way yes , what did I do this time ? She asked for my ID and said here is the ticket you left in that other machine ! Just goes to show how they can track you and your play quite easily . Bob

I don't play slots, so I've never experienced an unused TITO issue. However, when returning with a girlfriend from Florida we stopped in Nashville TN for the night. After buying a couple of beers from a "satellite" location at "The Stage", I left my wallet on the counter with about $1500 cash stuffed in it. After returning to the dance floor, which was really a bunch of happy people watching live music, some nice chick tracked me down with my fully loaded wallet. Yee Haa!

That was five years ago.