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Originally Posted by albert
His the one that checked for me and told me its been cashed. I trust he did not cashed the ticket and lied. My primary reason for the post is getting different views from other card players and bettors about whats an fair way to divide the loss. Like i said, if i agreed to hold money for an friend or anyone, i have an responsiblity to keep it safe, how far that responsibility goes is gonna be different for everyone. It had happen to me before, and i had made my friend whole. But it seems like so far, the general point of view is i should eat the loss.
Not sure if they'd do it but couldn't you ask the Casino to check the cameras to see who cashed it? If they're concerned your friend is the 'owner' of the ticket rather than you then he could make the request, and there's no reason he wouldn't make that request on your behalf if he's not the one who cashed it. I have no idea if that's something that a US casino would do. If waste of time is a concern for them you could offer to tip them for their time.
At the very least if your friend strongly refuses to make the request to go to the cameras it's highly likely he stole from you, and if he happily makes the request to go to the cameras even if the casino won't do it you can be pretty confident that he didn't steal from you as that would be a big bluff for him to run hoping that the casinos won't check and tell him 'you cashed the ticket yourself' (obviously you would need to be in on any phone call with the casino so he can't just lie about what they said assuming neither of you are still in Vegas)
Or if it's well known that Vegas casinos don't go to the cameras over stolen tickets then disregard the above obviously, someone who lives in Vegas would have a better idea of whether that's possible.
Your friend texting you out of the blue etc asking if he owes you money is either a guilty conscience or he's a really good friend, objectively as an outsider it does seem very likely you got stolen from though.