"Forgetting" your players club card in a slot machine.

[ninous26]

I don't like slots but I occasionally throw in a 20 if I'm out trying to have a good time with a female/friends/family that don't like to play table games.. I almost always stumble across a machine that has a players card left in there and the person is gone.. I always thought that it was a careless person who simply forgot there card.

Well... In vegas this past weekend I noticed a guy leave a BJ table, walk up to a slot machine and stuck his card in there and walked away.


IMO if this really works it is a genius way to collect points/comps and it makes you look less like an AP and more like a ploppy. All you do is report your card lost afterwards and you get a new one.. However they'd probably catch on to this later of course.

Does anyone else do this? I thought about it but it felt like stealing to me so I didn't do it.

 

[Sucker]

That trick seldom works, and when it does; not for long. Because MOST players USE their own card, they'll just pull your card out and insert theirs. Also; slot attendants at almost ALL casinos are instructed to always pull cards out of any unattended machines they see.

 

[Blue Efficacy]

Unfortunately a good chunk of refusals at slot play do so because they think it's going to alter their odds. They are not going to play under your card if they are not going to play with their own.

 

[ninous26]

Agreed with the above posts.. Everyone and their mothers has a players card in Vegas. This may work however in a city/state where casinos are not a huge attraction.

I have a couple times played on someone else's card because I did not notice that was in there. Now I look every time.

 

[exgriffinman]

Players cards

This has been going on since players cards were introduced for the slots...I have seen Slot Bums insert their card in an unsuspecting elderly players machine (who is not using a card) while they are not looking or distract them to put it in and collect their points. Lets not leave out the drunken player as well. When the slot bum is caught his card is de-activated(clearing all points) and they are tresspassed.

Slot employees (especially Techs) have been caught inserting a friends or loved ones card while they are testing machines and have also put their cards in players machines as well. When caught doing this they are terminated on the spot, this is a form of theft.

EXGM

 

[Most Interesting Man]

I once forgot a card in a machine. Someone cleared out my free play.

 

[Dyepaintball12]

Two weeks ago my friend found a card on the ground, GUESSED the pin (1234), and clear out the free play for a $140 win.

 

[Sonny]

Two weeks ago my friend found a card on the ground, GUESSED the pin (1234), and clear out the free play for a $140 win.

Just be glad it wasn't a bigger win. He might be in jail right now. :sad:

-Sonny-

 

[Dyepaintball12]

Just be glad it wasn't a bigger win. He might be in jail right now. :sad:

-Sonny-

Is that legally stealing?

Also, couldn't the actual owner of the card dispute the charge? I guess it would be hard to prove it wasn't him though.

 

[21forme]

Is that legally stealing?

No, it's illegally stealing :laugh:

 

[exgriffinman]

Is that legally stealing?

Also, couldn't the actual owner of the card dispute the charge? I guess it would be hard to prove it wasn't him though.

Actually the casino is the owner of the card. When you sign up you will be asked to acknowledge a disclaimer that the players card is the property of that casino and they have the right to Blah, Blah, Blah...But yeah, That was stealing, FYI

EXGM

 

[alwayssplitaces]

I do that at the Harrah's properties in Vegas to get slot points. I just ask a slot player politely if I could insert my card in their machine since they're not using it, and most agree. I made Diamond this year. It would look suspicious to see only Pennsylvania blackjack and poker play on my card. By doing that, it makes me look like a gambler. They'll see that I mostly play poker and blackjack in PA and AC with little slot play, then I go to Vegas several times a year and play the slots for hours every day I'm there.