Whats the biggest tip youve ever seen? [Archive]

MEbenhoe

03-18-2005, 05:04 PM

I didnt actually see it, but gonores once tipped the whole pot in a $3/$6 game, don't recall the exact amount but it was over $20.

edit - here it is

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Bicyclekick went home around 3, but 3/6 all-star and other young 2+2ers are still there. Somehow, on my BB, we get one limper and Edge completes in the SB. I have a momentary lapse of judgment and check with 97o. I immediately recognize my mistake and begin chewing myself out. I bet an A84 flop and get a caller. I’m still enraged about the preflop check. 7 comes on the turn, I bet and get a fold from the new-guy limper. I am so pissed at myself for missing the extra $6 preflop that when the dealer starts pushing me the pot, I tell him I don’t want it. Keep it, Richard. This pushes 3/6 all-star off the edge. The look on his face will forever be etched in my memory…you could just see him trying to calculate how many ramen noodle meals that $21 could buy. It took him a good half of a hand for the magnitude of the events that just transpired to register with him so he could go tell the posse of our most recent transgression. As the dealer thanked me profusely for the tip, I replied (for the umpteenth time that evening) “I do what I can. I’m a humanitarian.”

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edtost

03-18-2005, 05:13 PM

i've seen sfer do the same. oddly enough, he was drunk and acting like an idiot at the time.

skp

03-18-2005, 05:20 PM

There was a guy from LA - a movie producer or something by the name of David (aka DD). He would come into our games now and then and would often tip the whole pot. We had wild 'n crazy 10-20 kill games with $800 pots occurring quite frequently. He would be rooting like hell for a club or whatever he needed to make his flush. He would be yelling to the dealer "put a club out there, sweetheart and the pot is yours". Boom - off comes the 3c and down goes $800 into the dealer's toke box.

The dude was nuts.

CheckFold

03-18-2005, 05:30 PM

Very drunk guy in a 15-30 game at Borgata. Sits down and first hand keeps talking about "I want to raise as much as I possibly can!!!" every time the action is to him. Took about 6 minutes to play the first hand because he kept betting the wrong amount or acting out of turn or just making a scene about how much he wanted to bet. Anyway, he held A8 and an A came off on the river and was good in a 5 way pot or so. He dragged a pretty big pot and someone at the table mentioned "don't forget to tip the dealer". He grabs two handfuls of reds and places them in front of the dealer. Was about $150 or so I would guess.

MarkL444

03-18-2005, 05:36 PM

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There was a guy from LA - a movie producer or something by the name of David (aka DD). He would come into our games now and then and would often tip the whole pot. We had wild 'n crazy 10-20 kill games with $800 pots occurring quite frequently. He would be rooting like hell for a club or whatever he needed to make his flush. He would be yelling to the dealer "put a club out there, sweetheart and the pot is yours". Boom - off comes the 3c and down goes $800 into the dealer's toke box.

The dude was nuts.

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sounds like a good game.

Luv2DriveTT

03-18-2005, 05:37 PM

I was card dead at the Bellagio playing 8/16, so when the new dealer sat down I told her I will split the next pot with her if she deals me the winning hand. I think I was at the CO... I looked down and found AA

The pot was huge, and my pair held up on the river (a fool called me down with King high, no draw). When I tried to give her 1/2 she wouldn't take it. So I gave her a huge tip anyway, I think it was like $30 or $40.

TT /images/graemlins/club.gif

Matt Flynn

03-18-2005, 06:09 PM

In the dominos game at Lucky Chances $100 tokes are seen every night.

Matt

miajag81

03-18-2005, 06:21 PM

I think the most I have ever tipped is one red chip. One of my friends once tipped a cocktail waitress $25 for one drink.

deathtoau

03-18-2005, 07:00 PM

I was playing 10/20 at the borg one night. There were about 4-5 dealers from other casinos at the table having a good time with each other and the dealer. They were tipping the dealer 25-50 bucks after every mid to large size pot and I saw one tip of over $100. The game was wicked good with 5-7 minimum to every flop, but I got a table change as soon as possible. They were taking way to much money off the table each orbit. 45 minutes after they all sat down, the table broke from everyone going to (or near) the felt.

lighterjobs

03-18-2005, 07:14 PM

lighterjobs

03-18-2005, 07:19 PM

the first time I ever played live last Feb. was at the palms. I won a huge (HUGE) pot playing 4-8 with a straight flush against the nut flush plus the $599 high hand jackpot. I was scared because I was only 18 and thought I might get carded so I didn't even think about tipping the dealer. a few hands later she dealt me quad fives. won another huge pot plus a $333 high hand jackpot. so that was about $1500 this dealer gave me in about 15 minutes, so I tipped her $100. that was the biggest tip I have ever given.

I've seen other people tip $200 and $300 if they win bad beat jackpots, but nothing too exciting.

edtost

03-18-2005, 07:30 PM

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I was playing 10/20 at the borg one night. There were about 4-5 dealers from other casinos at the table having a good time with each other and the dealer. They were tipping the dealer 25-50 bucks after every mid to large size pot and I saw one tip of over $100. The game was wicked good with 5-7 minimum to every flop, but I got a table change as soon as possible. They were taking way to much money off the table each orbit. 45 minutes after they all sat down, the table broke from everyone going to (or near) the felt.

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why would you not wait until they went broke to get your table change? +ev for a limited time is still +ev.

deathtoau

03-18-2005, 07:47 PM

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why would you not wait until they went broke to get your table change? +ev for a limited time is still +ev.

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After 2 orbits of seeing $200+ disappear into the toke tube, I figured that if I did stay and got cold cards for a period or got a few suckouts against me it was very -EV. Money on the table that I can win is +EV. Money that is dropped in the tube not to be won is -EV.

Besides, the 10/20 game at the borg is usually so fishy anyway, what ever table I was at was +EV /images/graemlins/grin.gif

edtost

03-18-2005, 07:55 PM

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I figured that if I did stay and got cold cards for a period or got a few suckouts against me it was very -EV.

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you have a disturbingly bad intuition for ev. you will run good just as often as you run bad, and win much more when running good than you will lose when running bad at that table as compared to a normal table.

deathtoau

03-18-2005, 08:08 PM

I would much rather play at a table with 4 fish were I have the ability to win every $$ there than I would to play at a table with 7 fish and have upwards of 10% of the total table's stacks disappear every orbit. One has the potential for profit (+EV) while the other has an almost guarantee of loss (-EV). As I weighted my options, I decided that it was better for me personally to change tables. If you would have sat in a sinking ship game fine, but I would much rather find greener pastures.

edtost

03-18-2005, 08:16 PM

this logic only works if you were tipping as extravagantly as they were. assuming you were tipping the same amount there as at another table, i will quote myself: "you have a fundamental misunderstanding of why good players make money from poker."

MarkL444

03-18-2005, 08:19 PM

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"you have a fundamental misunderstanding of why good players make money from poker."

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ed's right.

deathtoau

03-18-2005, 08:35 PM

My goal has always been to make the most money over the long term. I would agree with your earlier assertion if there were no other games or if the other games were not soft, but as long as I had other +EV options, I would make the same choice over again.

Money in the toke tube: chance of winning 0.00%
Money on the table: chance of winning > 0.00%

So I missed out on some short term variance (+ or -) to assure myself of a long term +EV situation. I don't mind so why do you?

chollowa

03-18-2005, 08:41 PM

Caught a bad-beat jackpot when I was 20. Won $6,300.00 and tipped 10% so that's $600.00.

It's the biggest tip I've seen and the biggest tip I've given. On a side note, I realized how big an idiot I was for giving a $600.00 shortly thereafter.

Still the Ace on the River was nice to complet my Ace's full of Queens to his 4 lady's.

dogmeat

03-19-2005, 12:39 AM

A few good ones come to mind:

BJ dealer at Casino Arizona makes $28K in an 8 hour shift - $27K came from a single player who was playing three hands of $500 each and betting $100 chips for the dealer

Drunk local bj player leaves his rack of chips ($100,000) from a marker he just signed on the table when he starts talking to his wife, who convinces him to come home. I run after him and tell him he still has chips on the table, he tells me to "keep 'em as a gift". I take the rack to the cage and put them in a safe deposit box under his name. A couple weeks later he is in the club and I tell him he still has chips in a safe deposit box, he does not remember anything. We go to the cage, the cage manager gets the box and the player becomes a happy guy. (In case you are wondering, no, I could not keep the chips. Aside from the fact that managers can't keep tokes where I was working, even if I quit on the spot, I probably would have had a tough time convincing anybody that it was a gift)

Player on a wild crap game at Harrah's in Reno wins several houndred thousand dollars, and never tips the whole three hours he is playing. After leaving the game and going to the cage, he comes back to the game and tells the stick-man to come to the local Ford Dealer the next morning with the other three dealers. In the end, each dealer got a brand new Ford, no ups, no extras, paid by the player.

Good stuff /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Dogmeat /images/graemlins/spade.gif

daryn

03-19-2005, 02:18 AM

your logic is flawless.

http://www.umasspoker.com/mooninites.jpg

David Steele

03-19-2005, 02:20 AM

I also was in this game when he tipped a pot.

D.

Yeknom58

03-19-2005, 03:03 AM

The guy sounds cool. I like how no matter what the river card is he still loses the pot.

Yeknom58

03-19-2005, 03:14 AM

Why was the tip stupid? It was only stuipd if you needed the money. You felt good, they were happy..seems smart to me.

Yeknom58

03-19-2005, 03:17 AM

Seriously think really really really hard about this then reply . No stop right now..don't reply yet..think a little bit more...okay now try and explain to me why you think ed is wrong...because he isn't. Everyong is telling you you're wrong but you still think you're right...what conclusion can we draw from this? Is this concept so difficult that everyone is missing the point but you? I guess you must be extra extra genius smart or wait how about this...you made a mistake :0

Michael Emery

03-19-2005, 03:20 AM

I got to play 75-150 stud with Phil Ivey once about four years ago at the Taj in AC. Keep in mind this is when he lived in AC and before he got really big time, thus why he was only playing 75-150. Anyway, he was quite drunk when I joined the game. He constantly was getting up going to the bar right beside the poker room and getting these beers in fancy glasses for him and anyone else that wanted one in the game (on him).

I recall how he ordered a water later on (guess to help him sober up) and when the cocktail waitress brought it to him he asked "How much do you deserve for this"? He had about 10K in front of him. The waitress just kept saying "Oh I dont know, whatever you want to give me". But he kept asking over and over for her to tell him how much money she wanted. She finally decided on a green chip ($25). He gave her a black chip ($100) for his drink. I wonder what he would have said if she replied "I want all of it for that drink". /images/graemlins/smile.gif

A few other things I remember about that game. I'm sure Phil dosent always do this, maybe it was because it was only 75-150, or maybe it was due to him being so trashed. Either way these would really cut into your win rate. He would give the dealer one or two red ($5) chips every time he won a pot that game. When everyone else won a pot and tipped a white ($1) chip or two, he would remark "But that pot was several hundred dollars, how are you going to only tip that much?" He would say this jokingly of course. The other thing is he would put everyone up that he won a pot from. Even if you only saw 4th street with him then folded he would put in your $15 ante. He was definitely a blast to play with.

Mike Emery

bernie

03-19-2005, 07:31 AM

Do tips on badbeat jackpots count?

b

Yeknom58

03-19-2005, 07:35 AM

I would think so. How much did you tip?

Inthacup

03-19-2005, 10:57 AM

Poker: I'd say I've seen tips around $50 before

Outside of poker: I used to work in the bagroom of a country club during high school. We only got tips from about 5% of the golfers, but they usually tipped well. A few guys were good for $20 every time you cleaned their clubs. One time during a big tourney, a guy tipped me $200 to clean his clubs. That's about as much as a made in a week from the CC.

Cup

deacsoft

03-19-2005, 12:03 PM

I'm a pretty generous guy. When I won a Midwest Poker Tour event I tipped the dealers nearly 10% of my winnings. The other big tip I've given was to a guy who was working at a dump. I went there to drop off a bunch of junk and got to talking to him. He told me the patheticly low wage he was being paid and I was shocked. I puled a $100 out of my pocket and gave it to him. He took a little convincing before he accepted it but did. It made me feel great to know I could help out a guy who was getting shafted by the city.

Be generous with your tips. These people are working hard for you. /images/graemlins/smile.gif And remember that most poker dealers get paid next to nothing. It's their tips that pay their bills.

deathtoau

03-19-2005, 12:51 PM

Everyone = 1 person plus you after the fact.
Damn, I need to double-check my math on that count.

Ok, so lets assume I made a mistake by not staying in a game I did not feel comfortable in. Then I would be making a bigger mistake by staying in a game that I would play less than optimum in. A small mistake compounded with a bigger mistake seems pretty dumb to me and I am not even extra extra genius smart.

Punker

03-19-2005, 11:13 PM

Fine count me as two.

As long as people have enough money to play a hand to the river, it doesn't matter how much else they have, or how much they give to the dealer.

shant

03-20-2005, 01:31 AM

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i've seen sfer do the same. oddly enough, he was drunk and acting like an idiot at the time.

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There was a lot of pre-showdown tiping as well as pot-chopping with the dealer last night in the Commerce 2+2 game. sfer did a lot of it.

bernie

03-20-2005, 02:05 AM

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I would think so. How much did you tip?

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4 figures.

b

Mikey

03-20-2005, 02:16 AM

green chips galore flying to the dealer at the Borgata in a big limit cash game, i'm not sure what the limit was, but it was during one of the tournaments.

PiquetteAces

03-20-2005, 04:10 AM

What about Fossilman ?

3% was took from the price pool as a tip for the staff .

So , (3/103) * 5 000 000$ = about 146 000$

- jpp

sfer

03-20-2005, 11:45 AM

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oddly enough, he was drunk and acting like an idiot at the time.

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For the record, the idiocy was entirely unrelated to the drinking.

stabn

03-20-2005, 02:32 PM

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What about Fossilman ?

3% was took from the price pool as a tip for the staff .

So , (3/103) * 5 000 000$ = about 146 000$

- jpp

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That isn't a tip.

ismisus

03-20-2005, 03:32 PM

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That isn't a tip.

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How come its under the Tip category?

stabn

03-21-2005, 01:22 AM

A forced payment to dealers is not a tip...

Daliman

03-21-2005, 02:43 AM

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A forced payment to dealers is not a tip...

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It may as well be. I tip very well, but if I ever win where they're taking out 3% for dealers, they ain't getting 3% more from me. Maybe 1%.

mosch

03-21-2005, 12:26 PM

I tipped the whole pot in a 4/8 game. I was drunk and playing like a complete maniac. One of my opponents said something to the effect that the dealer won that pot, not me. I agreed and pushed the pot to the dealer.

I gave a dealer $70 at the end of their down in a 20/40 game, after joking at the beginning of the down that I'd give them a 10% freeroll if they'd just let me stop losing for a few minutes.

Other than that... I've given a few oversized ($50 and $100) tips in situations where I got my money in way behind in a no-limit cash game, and joked that I'd tip extremely generously if they helped me suck out.

I guess I'm a drunk/idiot.

gcoutu

03-21-2005, 12:44 PM

2 Tips from last trip to Vegas.

1. I won a 600+ pot playing 1-2 NL and won high hand jackpot for quad threes (same hand). I tipped the dealer about $25 and the floorman another $25. We were about to leave and I was already way up for the trip and The Alladin was good to us.

2. The best 4-8 game ever at the Bellagio on a Friday night. Average pot size had to be $175 for a solid 2 hrs. We were in seats 2, 3, 4, and 5. Seat 1 was from Turkey or something and raised 98% of every street of every hand. He didn't tip when he won. My buddy, Tim, gets in a pot with him where the Turk has AT (a monster hand for him) and Tim caps pre-flop and post flop with 8 /images/graemlins/club.gif5 /images/graemlins/club.gif He flops the flush draw and the Turk hits the A. Tim gets the guy all in and flips over his flush draw and mutters KNYUCK KNYUCK KNYUCK (Three Stooges Style) and hits the flush on the river. As the deal pushes him the pot his grabs at least $20+ and gives to the deal and says that it is the "non tipping mother fuckers anyway..."

jcmack13

03-21-2005, 01:15 PM

This thread reminds me of a story I heard:

Frank Sinatra was staying at a hotel and there was a young boy working as a errand-lad and a gofer at the door. Sinatra leaned down and asked the boy, "what's the biggest tip you ever got, kid?" "a hundred dollars" the boy replied. without another word Sinatra took two hundred dollar bills and gave them to the kid and started walking away.

After a few steps he turned around. "just out of curiosity, kid, who gave you the hundred dollar tip?"

the kid looked up and said, "you did, Mr. Sinatra, yesterday."

Chairman Wood

03-21-2005, 01:16 PM

A buddy of mine and I were at the mirage playing 3/6. We were both hammered out of our skulls and being absolutely obnoxious. We were about to leave and my friend takes down his last hand, racks his remaining chips and leaves a $70 pot on the table as a tip for the dealer.

stabn

03-21-2005, 02:44 PM

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A forced payment to dealers is not a tip...

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It may as well be. I tip very well, but if I ever win where they're taking out 3% for dealers, they ain't getting 3% more from me. Maybe 1%.

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If i do they will get nothing. 3% of the prizepool is payment enough for their time. It takes them out of the level where, IMO, they don't need tips. It instead makes them a decently paid employee.