Tipping dilemma...please help

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What should I do?
(a) Report his actions to the floor manager?
(b) Talk to the dealer directly?
(c) Ignore the situation and continue to attempt to tip the dealer?
(d) Ignore the situation and simply decline to tip this particular dealer anymore?
(e) Stop being a cheap bastard and start tipping $4 or $5 per pot?
(f) Other??

Comments and advice appreciated.

Garland

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I prefer a more vindictive approach. Save up the tips you would have given this dealer. When the next dealer shows up give him the tips and make sure the old dealer hears "the old dealer didn't want them." Poetic justice and something to make you smile and shrug the guy off.

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It's not Monday. Tipping threads are not allowed till Monday of each week. That way all 10 of them can stay on the first page for at least 5-6 days.

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What should I do?
(a) Report his actions to the floor manager?
(b) Talk to the dealer directly?
(c) Ignore the situation and continue to attempt to tip the dealer?
(d) Ignore the situation and simply decline to tip this particular dealer anymore?
(e) Stop being a cheap bastard and start tipping $4 or $5 per pot?
(f) Other??

Comments and advice appreciated.

Garland

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I prefer a more vindictive approach. Save up the tips you would have given this dealer. When the next dealer shows up give him the tips and make sure the old dealer hears "the old dealer didn't want them." Poetic justice and something to make you smile and shrug the guy off.

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haha, that's better than my solution by a LONG shot! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] ni han indeed.

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haha, that's better than my solution by a LONG shot! ni han indeed.



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Echo here

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for a massive $2300 pot in a 1-2-2 NL game, maybe you could have tipped more in the first place. and offering the dealer an extra dollar after he threw back the chips at you wasn't the smartest move either. but all in all, the dealer had no right to act as he did and you should just talk to the floor manager and also not tip him from now on. but then again, that would be bad for your image since the other players at your table next time won't know the history between you and that particular dealer and will just see you as a tight-cheap player. if the game is that good, it may be +EV to tip a bit more even to that dealer just for your image even if you don't like what you're doing.

[juanez]

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You should tap it on the table not the rack.

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From 2+2's "The Professional Poker Dealers Handbook" (Paymer, Harris, Malmuth):
"...say "Thank you," and pick up the toke immediately, lightly tapping the edge of the rack ..."

My poker room manager has been in poker for a long, long, time.

I'm not going to argue or debate the pro's and con's of tapping the toke on the rack or the table, but I would suggest that there are probably very few policies in a poker room that could matter less.

[Kirkrrr]

Tipping:

1) None if there was no flop, unless it ended up being a huge pot anyway, in which case $1.

2) $1 if there was a flop, and I made more than 2BB.

3) $1-$3 off any "decent" sized pot, depending on pot size and the particular dealer. Some dealers are really great at their job, they get more.

4) <$5 if it was a really gigantic pot (like the one in OP).

To summarize, I definitely think you should've tipped more than $2 for 2K pot... I mean, c'mon now. But given his completely unprofessional reaction, screw him if he wants to be a jackass, and if he doesn't want you to tip him - don't.

Kirk

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My poker room manager has been in poker for a long, long, time.

I'm not going to argue or debate the pro's and con's of tapping the toke on the rack or the table, but I would suggest that there are probably very few policies in a poker room that could matter less.

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You are correct that this is a minor point, but it is the small things that add up to the overall guest experience. The one tiem hitting the rack becomes an issue is when a non tipper that bets large in the pit that wanders into thte poker room decides the dealer is doing it to embarass him and complains to his host.

I don't know your manager, but working at a job a long time does is not a measure of competance. He could be very good, or he coudl be one of the guys that has been working 10 years and has 6 months experience 20 times over.

I won't mention names, but I know of someone that managed a poker toom in a small market and he couldn't handle it. He was a nice enough guy, he just didn't understand poker. Then the company he worked for opened opened a very large room in a large market and they made him the poker room manager. This person knows no more about poker than someone that has dealt at Bellagio for a few months, but he now manages one fo the larger rooms in the country.

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I think dropping a red bird from a $2300 pot isn't over spending, but there's never an excuse for a dealer to act that way for any tip at all. Ever. The only thing they should ever do is say thanks, no matter how much.