This silly mistake happened in July while playing at the M Resort. It has been more than 10 years since I have made a similar mistake — – and I\u2019m fortunate that this mistake was relatively small — – but let me tell you what happened and what I did about it.<\/p>\n
I had some free play to pick up — – $130 — – and I was also playing through an additional $850 to earn a \u201cfree\u201d lunch buffet. They have some $1 NSU machines and I was using those to pick this up.<\/p>\n
I downloaded the $130 and played — – and ended up with $75 in credits, meaning this time I had lost $55 in the process of playing off my free play and earning the free buffet. Not a great result by any means, but that\u2019s gambling and the daily score didn\u2019t bother me at all. I recorded my result and went off to enjoy my lunch while reading a book that I had brought along.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, I decided to cash out my $75 ticket between the buffet and the parking garage — and couldn\u2019t find it. I searched my wallet and all possible pockets. I also thumbed through my book in case I had put the ticket there as a bookmark of sorts. Nothing.<\/p>\n
I stopped by the machine \u201cin case,\u201d but nobody was playing the machine and the last ticket cashed out wasn\u2019t for $75.<\/p>\n
I was late to an appointment so I left the casino. I was going to be back the next day for a drawing, so I figured that I would then check with the slot department in case the ticket was turned in. It wasn\u2019t likely, but I thought it wouldn\u2019t hurt to check. Maybe a slot attendant saw the credits, cashed the ticket, and turned it in. Maybe the next person who sat down there was the sort of person who would turn it in. Who knew?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know how likely either one of these scenarios was, perhaps 10% – 20% total — – that\u2019s a wild-assed guess — -but if I didn\u2019t ask, there was probably no chance I\u2019d see any part of that $75. And a 10% – 20% chance was better than no chance at all.<\/p>\n
So, I got there the following day and asked to see Kevin. I don\u2019t know his exact title — – he\u2019s some sort of slot supervisor or maybe the slot shift boss — – but I\u2019ve known him from playing there for three or four years. Our relationship is friendly and I don\u2019t have a reputation there of being an angle-shooter. I figured he\u2019d believe my story and would help me if he could.<\/p>\n
He asked questions about what time of day it was and what machine. I told him and in about two minutes he found a record that showed much of what happened. The slot record he looked at (he didn\u2019t let me see it) indeed showed I had played about 10 minutes with my card in and left without cashing out. The record he was looking at didn\u2019t show the number of credits I had left behind and this wasn\u2019t a big enough deal to warrant him pulling up the surveillance tapes. Perhaps I could have made it that big of a deal — – were I really stressed about this and insistent — – but I saw this as a \u201cbump in the road\u201d and figured the \u201cfinders keepers\u201d rule would apply. If I need a big favor down the road, I don\u2019t want to have used it up on something this small.<\/p>\n
Eight minutes after I left, according to the slot record, a woman whose name I didn\u2019t recognize (whether Keven knew or not, he didn\u2019t say) inserted her players\u2019 card and some money, played eight minutes, and cashed out for $40.<\/p>\n
There was nothing suspicious here to Kevin\u2019s eye, and the fact that she inserted some money and played some masked whatever really happened — – at least according to this particular slot record. Kevin said he was sorry that he couldn\u2019t help me.<\/p>\n
I was glad he checked for me. I figured it was a longshot anyway and it was my own fault, so why get upset? I\u2019m 70 years of age now — – and I suspect these things will happen a little more frequently as I get older. That\u2019s the nature of getting older.<\/p>\n
In spite of no \u201cgood\u201d result, I\u2019m glad I checked. I could have gotten lucky, and checking improved my chances even though I didn\u2019t cash on those chances this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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