Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
Kewlj the real question is would you use the DUB if you found yourself sitting at a machine that had it?

How about you found a yellow chip in the casino parking lot? Would you pocket it or turn it in?

When I played the $350 found on the slot my sister, brother in law and myself waited a half-hour for someone to show up.

When no one showed I played it. But I was fully prepared to give $350 to anyone who came by and said where's my money?

I also had no idea it was a felony.

If I ever found a wallet with $350 in the parking lot I'd turn it in.
These are good questions Alan. before I answer, I want to relay a similar experience I had to yours. It was back in my Atlantic City days. I used the bus for transportation back then from Phila to Atlantic City (getting the casino bonus that covered the cost of the ticket). So it was Showboat Casino at the time. I don't know what it is called now. There was a walk down a long hall from the bus depot section to the casino. I was usually at the front of my bus group because I was far younger than most of the bus patrons. So walking down the hall, I see an envelope on the carpet. Just looked like a piece of trash except in black marker it was written Grampa's gambling money. I was almost past it as I read it, but then scooped it up and headed for the men's room to see what was inside.

There was no way for me to identify "grandpa" and return his money. If there was a name instead of "grandpa", I would have paged him. But what was I going to do, page "grandpa who lost some money"? I could have turned it in to security. I suppose that is the proper thing to do. But I have no confidence that these underpaid security people aren't pocketing the money in those situations. A bit of "finders keepers" comes into play and that is what I did. Like you, at that time I didn't even know it was a crime.

Now I gotta tell ya, the casinos say if you find money or a chip in the casino, that it belongs to the casino. I don't really subscribe to that. If I am able to identify who it belongs to and return it I will, but after that, I don't buy that it belongs to the casino. This may be against the letter of the law, but I am comfortable with it.

Now to your question, what would I have done had I stumbled onto the double up bug. I don't think a person can really answer that until they find themselves in that situation. I can tell you that I would know that it was a crime to continue to take money that didn't belong to me. I don't think I would point this glitch out to the casino, but I don't think I would play it for long either. I would just walk away.

And I can say that based on an experience that I did have (much smaller scale). Again back in my AC days. There were at least 3 other players at the blackjack table, when they changed dealers. It was obviously a brand new dealer being broken in. Pit watched him for a few rounds but then lost interest. You could see this young dude, was nervous and new. All of the sudden he starts paying everyone on every hand regardless of whether the players total was higher than the dealers. 2 or 3 rounds, everyone is looking at each other but no one said anything. Then players started betting much bigger to take advantage. I colored up and left. I wanted no part of this. I suspected it would only take a couple more rounds before someone (maybe EITS) saw this, and who knows how they would handle it, whether they would make players pay back or not. I just wanted no part of it and left.

I like to win playing legally and fairly within the rules. That is what advantage play is to me.