Finding Chips On The Floor

WhiteKnight · #1 11-05-2007, 01:26 AM

Let's say I'm playing poker in a casino, and I pull back my chair to readjust and notice a $100 chip lying on the floor a little bit under the table. This denomination of chip is much higher than would be used for the game in which I'm sitting. From the casino's perspective, am I entitled to pick it up and put it in my pocket without saying anything?

fartman77 · #2 11-05-2007, 01:52 AM

I would. I'm asian though.

One Outer · #3 11-05-2007, 02:09 AM

It's yours. This has happened to me twice. I run good in life.

All-inMcLovin · #4 11-05-2007, 02:18 AM

OMG IF I FIND MONEY IS IT MINE!?

Yes you take it.

kindergartencop · #5 11-05-2007, 02:23 AM

at a casino id just ask anyone around if they lost any money lately. im sure if someone did they would want it back.

bav · #6 11-05-2007, 02:33 AM

Probably depends on jurisdiction. In Nevada, anything on the floor belongs to the casino. There are tales now and then of someone finding $500 and $1000 chips and trying to cash 'em and having them confiscated once the casino figures out they came from their floor. I even read a tale of someone at a slot finding a $100 chip on the floor beside them and pocketing it and 5 minutes later security comes and takes 'em away and they're told they are henceforth persona non grata and are told to leave forever. For $100's, you'll get away with it long as surveillance doesn't happen to see it. I've never found anything bigger than $5 and I just hand it to some favorite poker dealer as a toke.

fartman77 · #7 11-05-2007, 02:35 AM

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at a casino id just ask anyone around if they lost any money lately. im sure if someone did they would want it back.

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This easily leads to a situation where they would just lie and say it's theirs. While you may have done the right thing, by asking you put yourself in a position to be taken advantage of.

gobboboy · #8 11-05-2007, 02:36 AM

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at a casino id just ask anyone around if they lost any money lately. im sure if someone did they would want it back.

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This easily leads to a situation where they would just lie and say it's theirs. While you may have done the right thing, by asking you put yourself in a position to be taken advantage of.

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Sick leveled.

RR · #9 11-05-2007, 02:52 AM

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Probably depends on jurisdiction. In Nevada, anything on the floor belongs to the casino. There are tales now and then of someone finding $500 and $1000 chips and trying to cash 'em and having them confiscated once the casino figures out they came from their floor. I even read a tale of someone at a slot finding a $100 chip on the floor beside them and pocketing it and 5 minutes later security comes and takes 'em away and they're told they are henceforth persona non grata and are told to leave forever. For $100's, you'll get away with it long as surveillance doesn't happen to see it. I've never found anything bigger than $5 and I just hand it to some favorite poker dealer as a toke.

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In just about every jurisdiction something on the floor belongs to the casino.

Rottersod · #10 11-05-2007, 03:35 AM

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Probably depends on jurisdiction. In Nevada, anything on the floor belongs to the casino. There are tales now and then of someone finding $500 and $1000 chips and trying to cash 'em and having them confiscated once the casino figures out they came from their floor. I even read a tale of someone at a slot finding a $100 chip on the floor beside them and pocketing it and 5 minutes later security comes and takes 'em away and they're told they are henceforth persona non grata and are told to leave forever. For $100's, you'll get away with it long as surveillance doesn't happen to see it. I've never found anything bigger than $5 and I just hand it to some favorite poker dealer as a toke.

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This may be true but in OP's case there shouldn't be anything wrong with him picking it up, putting it in his pocket and later cashing it. Poker rooms generally have less surveillance than house games like BJ, Craps, etc. and if the chip was visible and there was good surveillance someone would have spotted it earlier. I wouldn't sweat this. Now if it was a 1K or 5K chip in a poker room there might be heavier consequences - especially if OP is a low limit player who suddenly tries to cash a large denom chip.