Re: 50c tips
I've only twice given $0.50 tips. The first time was my first ever experience playing poker. It was at the Excalibur. I saw many others doing this, and I didn't know any better.* The other time was at the Mirage, when I had a dealer who, in my opinion, was very obnoxious in insisting on splitting a $1 chip into quarters in every pot, knowing that no one wanted quarters and would thus give them back to her as a tip. When I finally won a pot, I gave her two quarters, since she had so conveniently split them for me without me having asked.
* - I also had a dealer that night who told me that if I could balance a chip upright on top of another, he would give me a quarter for it. I said, "Well, that's easy!", and I balanced the chip. He grabbed the $1 chip, and gave me a quarter for it.
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