Besides the $10K limit, casinos voluntarily collect (and retain) certain information on transactions over $3K (some at $2K). In regard to the information on the ticket, I don't know how the systems actually work, I can say, from first hand experience at more then one casino, that the casino can connect a patron (whose player's club card was presumably in a machine at the right time) to a ticket. [Aside: I've cashed big tickets without any ID (even my players club card) at the same casino that required I produce ID for smaller tickets. If there is a real policy, seems like enforcment is not consistant]
related anecdotes:
I once went to cash out a $200-ish ticket. At the cage, I noticed it was for a strange amount that seemed impossible to have come from the VP machine I played. The person at the cage didn't care. So I ran back to the machine to see if I left credits in it. Nope... resigned that I somehow lost a few bucks I left the casino. About a month later I got a letter and a check from the casino. Apperently there was a malfunction and the generated voucher was for the wrong amount. The casino found the mistake and mailed me my check. I called my host and asked how they did this trick, and she said the computer could connect me with every ticket of mine-- and that they didn't need to go to the tapes (so to speak).
Another time I left a left a large ticket in a machine. Ok-- it was after a 24hr+ session. But it's was a horribly stupid thing to do anyway. Of course I didn't know I did it until a host tracked me down and gave me back my voucher! Supposedly, they "recovered" the voucher when someone tried to redeem it and their ID (presumably player's card #) didn't match mine. I was told no charges were filed... BTW, I was also told that had the ticket never been recovered, I could have gotten the money back too (if I had known to ask!) and they would have simply deactivated the old ticket (I doubt it would have been easy or even possible!)
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "vp_wiz" <harry.porter@...> wrote:
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> Most casinos will look for some type of identification (perhaps only a players card) when cashing a large ticket.
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> Casinos are required by the Treasury Dept to make an earnest effort to aggregate cash transactions in complying with the requirement to report any daily sum (cash in & out) in excess of $10k (CTR - currency transaction report)
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> I don't believe a ticket is encoded with anything more than a serial number and machine number. (Of course, recorded in the accounting system under the number may be a player number, if a card was in the machine at cash out. If not, I expect it would be a straightforward matter to correlate whose card was in the machine at or just prior to cash out.)
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