Vegas cabbie returns $300,000 to ‘famous’ poker player without a second thought

An unidentified — but, reportedly, very, very famous — 28-year-old poker player left behind $300,000 in cash in a brown-paper bag when he exited a Las Vegas taxi earlier this week, and the cabbie, upon discovering it was not, as he’d suspected, a bag of chocolates, said he had no thought of the splashy holiday gifts or life-changing investments that the money could have bought. Instead, the taxi driver enlisted a subsequent fare as witness and called his Yellow Checker Star dispatcher with the news. Every penny — or, more accurately, every $100 bill — was, after verifying its origin, returned to the poker pro.

“My dignity is not for sale,” Gerardo Gamboa said, according to CNN, “and that’s the way I am.”
Speaking with CNN affiliates KLAS and KVVU, Gamboa said he hoped his good deed would do good things for two reputations often seen as in need of some, if not redemption, than at least some good P.R.:
Taxi drivers:

“[T]his is the only chance I have to show cab drivers in Las Vegas are not bad people.”

And Vegas:

“They call [Las Vegas] ‘Sin City,’ but it’s not — it’s angel city.”

For his efforts, Gamboa was awarded $1,000 by Yellow Checker Star, which honored him as its driver of the year, and a voucher for a steak dinner for two.
On Twitter, he came in for further accolades — and incredulity and snap polling: