[BigBaitsim (milo)]

I've played 8 or 9 casinos in Vegas and at Canterbury Park. Dealers work for $5.15 an hour plus tips and tipping is expected. Typical is a buck a pot, except for the 2/4, where many tip $0.50. Tourists tip much more sometimes, retirees tend to be stingy. When stiffed, few dealers will mention it, but at one touristy table at Mandalay a new dealer went three hands without a tip. On the fourth tip, he dropped the chip loudly into the empty tip cup and commented on the sad and empty sound it made. Although he could have come off like an ass, he actually came off being fairly civilized and decent. The two of us at the table with any real experience told the newbies about tipping, and each chucked the dealer a buck or two.

EDIT: At all the places I asked in Vegas and at Canterbury, dealers keep their own tips.