Great, all we need is another thread where pro wanabees can cry about the customary expenses of the game. There's enough of those in the Internet forum right now.

I've heard a lot of top pros and dealers talk about how the better tippers are the best players and the completely recreational players. It's the ones in the middle - trying to make money playing poker but not good enough to REALLY make money - who skimp on tips and complain about rake or time charges.

This isn't always true, of course, but you can see from people's responses in a lot of recent threads that the mentality is rampant.