Poker sure has come a long way. From the days of being shot in a saloon for this to being sued

Hey everybody! Let me know if you dropped $100, and I will give it to you!

Lets pretend you didn't wait 30 seconds. The first thing you should do is either alert the dealer or the floor that $100 hit your foot and is on the floor. After that it's pretty much out of your hands. Likely someone at the table will claim it, and the floor will try to confirm whose it is.

Don't even think about taking it. It's not worth it, and can be considered theft by the casino. Yes, taking money that you found is still theft even if the owner is not clear. That is very well-established in many different states, not really worth checking your local law over.

Risk-reward here is super unbalanced in favor of risk, even if you can't see the immorality in taking $100 off the floor.

One of the places I play, every player, the dealer, the waitress and people on the waiting list would raise their hand and say it was theirs with pure confidence.

That was his point.

I would plant my foot on that chip and play poker for a while.
Then I would drop some chips and bend down to pick them up.

Uh, why do you assume my post was meant to refute his point instead of reinforce it???

Until reading this thread, honestly I would have probably put my fut on top of it and wait a long time to see if someone was looking for it. I would have quietly grabbed it if nobody came looking for it after 30 mins or so.

I'd want it to go to the right player - if I ask, some people might say "Me". I like best the suggestion to quietly tell the floor and see what they want to do with it. Maybe they'd track it down via camera, etc. Its a feel good thing.

Ask the table if anyone minds if you tip the dealer $100.

I'm going to be fullblown honest, I did this once with a $5 chip when I was new to live poker (and also obviously younger than I am now).

Edit: I forgot to mention that earlier in the session someone took my BB when I was talking to a waitress and no one fessed up to it.

They just straight up took it and I couldn't even get the dealer to say who did it because I was new. lol

you tend to be around the same players and meet them all through your poker life. what you do once can follow you and be your reputation forever.

My cautionary tale:

Couple of years ago, one of the guy's I often played poker against at my regular Grosvenor casino (UK, but still) went to play the slots, and found someone had left £10 in the slot machine they'd been playing. Decided as no one was playing on it, he'd call dibs on it. After all, who cares about a tenner?

Not long after, the person arrives back for their £10, and notices someone at the machine he was at. Goes to the cashier and explains what happened and if the guy had handed it in. Cashier says no and informs the manager, who then checks the CCTV and verifies that the £10 was indeed left in the machine and was now being played by someone else.

Suffice to say, my acquaintance was promptly banned not only from that one casino, but every Grosvenor in the country. For £10.

thats going a little far for the casino. and what wrong with people. all the guy had to do was say hey i left 10 on the machine and was coming back. please give me my 10.

from what I can recall, the person who left the money did not intend to come back and was 15 minutes or so out the door before remembering. And there is the argument that it doesn't matter if it's £10, £100 or £1,000 he was playing with money that wasn't rightfully his and knew it, yet played it regardless as if it was.

Does however show how far it could be easily taken, though.

What RZ is saying is that 'the person' should've asked whom ever was playing the machine if they walked into any credits on the machine. If the person denies, then go to casino staff and start an inquiry.

It just goes to show that you don't ever want to put your fate into someone else's hands, no matter how small the issue may seem.

I know a guy who left an envelope with his daily BR on the counter in the bathroom and by the time he walked to the poker room and back it was long gone with supposedly zero traceability via the cameras. Whom ever took it kept a straight face while exiting since it was a pretty tidy sum. GL

years back the casinos didnt care if you found credits on a machine. and how do you know if someone hit a jackpot or was just nice and paying it forward for the next guy. no way to tell. and if you found money on a machine it was considered finders keepers. as long as you had no idea whose money it was and it was a trivial amount.
if you knew of course you should notify them as that is the right thing to do in all cases.

same if you found a chip on the floor with no way to tell how it got there.

nowadays the casinos want to claim that money as there own. especially any found chips or lost cash if no one can prove it was their money.

so you have to be very careful even picking up lost money as in the casinos mind it is stealing their money. and with present day cameras you get caught easily and barred or get to go to the police.

however especially if you are playing poker or someplace where you find money dropped where it was a person who was still there or you might know you absolutely have a responsibility to turn it over to them as then it is really stealing.

best in life to just be honest and good things follow you.