Tipping

[boondockst]

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Sfer has it right on I think. I do what he does. And, since I play an average of 4 hours per day, I tip around $5800 per year. Plus about $300 per year for valet, plus $750 per year for food, and about $300 per year for coffee.

Not bad for a stingy $1 tipper. In fact...ouch.

Sparks

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your guys' reasoning is horrible....play with a tough/slow dealer and you'll appreciate what you have....

poker is a game of chance whose odds improve greatly with much skill...but it is still a "chance" you will earn $$$...while you will ALL BELITTLE AND FLAME me for this reasoning, stop being so tight and act like you're just up for a Mother Theresa award when you spew a dollar chip in a 3/6 game...when you get people calling you down with anything (maybe your game is really tight/tough?) and the money's flowing, why not tip the dealer a little more? I probably threw over 8 or 9 chips in a huge (220+) 4/8 1/2 kill pot (read: 6/12) that i won with AK high (guys showed AQ and KQ on a boring flop....my buddy [who folded to my underbet on the river of $8 because i was all in and didn't see what hand i could have that he beat, folded the winner with 99 on a board with two tens])

would that kind of tip just make you guys spit out your drink? it sounds like it...maybe i'm wrong and you guys are talking about not tipping more than a buck when you steal the blinds/get folded to on the flop.......

[sfer]

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your guys' reasoning is horrible....play with a tough/slow dealer and you'll appreciate what you have....

poker is a game of chance whose odds improve greatly with much skill...but it is still a "chance" you will earn $$$...while you will ALL BELITTLE AND FLAME me for this reasoning, stop being so tight and act like you're just up for a Mother Theresa award when you spew a dollar chip in a 3/6 game...when you get people calling you down with anything (maybe your game is really tight/tough?) and the money's flowing, why not tip the dealer a little more? I probably threw over 8 or 9 chips in a huge (220+) 4/8 1/2 kill pot (read: 6/12) that i won with AK high (guys showed AQ and KQ on a boring flop....my buddy [who folded to my underbet on the river of $8 because i was all in and didn't see what hand i could have that he beat, folded the winner with 99 on a board with two tens])

would that kind of tip just make you guys spit out your drink? it sounds like it...maybe i'm wrong and you guys are talking about not tipping more than a buck when you steal the blinds/get folded to on the flop.......

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I've tipped an entire pot (15 BBs) in a 2/4 game. Write in sentences.

[boondockst]

Wow. I will strive to always write in sentences from now on. I was not aware that having sentence fragments in a post was deemed offensive to some. I apologize and also tell you that "Write in sentences.", while having all the elements of a "proper" sentence, is barely a comprehensible sentence. It was also very early in the morning when I wrote that and I was just trying to get some thoughts out.

[Evan]

$1/pot won.

[turnipmonster]

hang on, you guys only tip for pots you won? I always just tipped $1 per pot.

--turnipmonster

[BoxTree]

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$1/pot won.

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Ditto. I play 6/12 to 9/18.

[The Goober]

I usually play 4-8, and I tip $1 on every pot, including blind steals. If I win a particularly large pot or have been winning a few good pots in a row, I will tip $2. If I'm having a bad night, I will occasionally not tip if I just steal the blinds. People who say that pot size makes no difference to how hard the dealer works are technically wrong - a big pot means lots of players in and lots of raising/calling, which means that it takes longer to play out the hand and hence less hands/hr for the dealer. I don't worry about this too much though.

I do have a general question about tipping, though: is it cheap to tip less than the one chip for the game? I recently started taking shots at 8-16 (like 4-8 but w/ $2 chips) and wasn't sure what to do. At first, I just tipped one chip ($2) a pot, but I noticed that some players would toss in the yellow chip, say "chop", and the dealer would toss back a blue chip. I've been doing this more and more, especially on small pots or when I've been having a bad night (I know, my night shouldn't have anything to do with it). Is this being cheap, or is the dealer's time worth the same, regardless of the game limits?

[Evan]

I tip $1 at 10/20 which is played w/ nickles.

[AngusThermopyle]

I you were playing a $20/$40 would you tip a $5 chip? No, not bad form to ask for change/chop.

BTW, during the 2002 WSOP was playing $4/$8 at the Bellagio and the table next to us was $1500/$3000 limit mixed-games ( no room 'upstairs' to spread it ). Brunson and Reese among the players. Their routine was for one player in rotation, toss a new dealer a $25 chip when they sat down to cover normal 'tips'. Works out to $50/hr.

[IronDragon1]

$1 per pot, $1 when the dealers switch, $1 when I leave