{"id":119809,"date":"2019-07-14T19:49:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T02:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/?p=119809"},"modified":"2019-07-14T19:49:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T02:49:44","slug":"found-titos-credits-new-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/found-titos-credits-new-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Found TITOs and credits, a new plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have discussed abandoned credits and found TITOs on the GWAE podcast in the past. Typically, if I find a few credits on a machine, I will cash out the ticket. If I find a significant amount on a machine, I will cash out the ticket and wait around for 15 minutes to see if anyone comes back to claim it. More than a few times, the person comes back, starts looking around the machine and I ask them if everything is alright. If they tell me that they left credits in the machine and can at least approximate the value, I give them their ticket. If after a reasonable time, no one comes looking for it, I cash it.<br \/>\nI found a ticket on 7\/5\/19 at a local casino. This ticket was actually hanging out of the machine. The timestamp on the ticket showed that it has been cashed out 10 minutes before I saw it. I picked it up and the amount was $75.97. Now, this isn\u2019t a fortune but is more than a few nickels. I saw a woman who I thought may have been playing that machine and asked her. She said she wasn\u2019t playing that machine. Another person came by looking at that machine and I asked him if he needed any help. He said no, he was just looking at the machine.<br \/>\nI had a play at the machine next to this one and stayed in the area for about an hour. No one came back to claim the ticket. At that point, I had an idea. I want to give the person who lost the ticket an opportunity to claim it but I have very little faith that if I turn it over to either a slot tech or security that they will make much effort to find the owner. Then the ticket either goes to the casino coffers or the state coffers.<br \/>\nSo, I decided to hold on to the ticket for a while. So, if the person came back later that day or the next day, they could contact s slot supervisor, identify the machine and the amount of the voucher, see it wasn\u2019t cashed, cancel the voucher I found and issue a new voucher to the owner. If no one ever comes back, I just cash the ticket on my next trip to that casino.<br \/>\nTo me, this strikes a pretty good balance. The person who lost or forgot the ticket has ample time to redeem it. The state or the casino doesn\u2019t pocket the unclaimed ticket. The ticket is secured from the large population of people that would pocket the ticket and not think twice about it.  This method won\u2019t work for a casino I rarely frequent or for an out of state casino if I am leaving that day. In those cases, I will wait around for the 15 minutes or so to see if someone claims the ticket.<br \/>\nNot a perfect solution but it\u2019s the best one I have at the moment. I ended up cashing the ticket on 7\/12\/19, with no issues. 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