idk why im starting this thread (or restarting if one was already made) but sometime when im playing i think, whats a normal tip? i usually give 1-3$ if pot in less than 100 and like 5$ if pots over, but i remember once i hit a 600$ pot in ac and i gave a 20$ tip and then once the dealer was moved to next table he tapped me on the back and thanked me like it was the biggest he ever got. i thought it was normal for that size, idk. what about you guys? what are tips like for dealers at a 5/10 table i would think more but maybe not. just bored here lol

 

Originally Posted by pwnsmyself

oh and prepare to be flamed bro... pretty sure these threads are frowned upon :.

why are these thread frowned upon?





i don't tip based on the size of the pot...me winning a big pot has nothingt o do with the dealer...

i tip based on the competency of the dealer. i tip good dealers well, and poor dealers poorly.

i am a dealer and I will say this, Gags is right and the dealers should be paid on there competence, they have no control over your hand or what is coming out. That being said 1-3 $ is fine, and the occasional 5 is great. Trust me the dealers love big tips, they are far and few between. We are depending on others to pay our bills out of gratitude, so anytime someone over tips it should be greatly appreciated. (they shouldn't single you out cause the dealer doesn't want to make any of the other tippers feel less appreciated)

As for the most I have tipped, I think i threw 75 to a dealer at a home game, I was drunk and flopped quads and told the dealers I would give him that if the donkey paid me off. (said it to try and get the donkey to pay me off, I bet 400 into a 200 dollar pot on the river and some how got paid off super light. Never seen the kid since....sigh)

As for the most I have ever been tipped, I have received a hundo on a few occasions and chopped the pot with 1 cat (wont mention but it made my night)

Bottom line.......what Gags said

Biggest was 50� in a 1600� pot at NL 1/1.
AK3 on flop, he had AK, i had AA

 

Originally Posted by COINGUY

i once tipped the dealer about 150 bucks due to the fact i was out of town at a casino never played at she was smoking hot i was playing 5-10 up enough for the trip it didnt matter so when she delt at my table the first decent pot i won when she pushed me the pot i raked in half of it and pushed her the other half... didnt get laid though so wasnt worth it.

No offense guy, but if she is smoking hot then i doubt she is whoring herself out for 150 bucks, i'm just saying......playing 5/10.......first multi way pot over 2k, take out what you put in and give her the rest....that may work.

or not

At most casinos, don't dealers have to pool their tips? Which makes tipping the better dealers more impossible since they all chop it.

 

Originally Posted by Gags30

why are these thread frowned upon?





i don't tip based on the size of the pot...me winning a big pot has nothingt o do with the dealer...

i tip based on the competency of the dealer. i tip good dealers well, and poor dealers poorly.

Mostly this, except pot size sorta matters even tho it shouldnt.... but no one tips like $1 on a 1k pot or anything but going like $20 is overboard...just use your judgment

But yeah tip on dealer competency for surrrre...theres so many bad dealers out there that I tip less hoping they get discouraged and either improve or find a different line of work when they see their coworkers making more tips because theyre better

TBH I rarely tip at casinos. Dealers pool their tips in Vancouver which is a pile of shit and gives no incentive for the dealers to do a good job. So pretty much if Dave the good dealer deals me a miracle river and I win a massive pot, any tip I give him is actually only .000001% in his pocket. The rest is divided up by the dealers who dont speak english and misdeal every other hand. When Im in Vegas Im more inclined to tip because the dealers actually work hard so they can get decent tips. Bottom line, something needs to be done in Canada, its a fuckin joke.

Didnt read the whole thread, I was a bartender all thru college, so i tend to tip larger than most. But the major component to this question is how often you play. I play big cash games a couple times a year, and when i say big, 5-10 and a lil bigger is the biggest i go, so im not a big timer. But if you play as a career, 5 dys a week, its obvious you have to tightly monitor your tipping. Back to the original post, I tip exactly what he does, those numbers are very similar to mine. But u cant tip like that if you are playing as a career, and good dealer bad dealer, you never know there personal situation, so as long as they come across as good people, and try to take control, I tip them based on that.

I once tipped $4 after losing a $17k pot at 10/25 nl at borgata. JJ < 66 in 3b pot on J6698 board :( Was too pissed after losing and whites didn't play so just gave em to the dealer! Prob biggest I ever tipped tbh, I generally just stick to $1 per hand and occasionally $2 or $3 if the dealer is doing an excellent job or if the pots over $5k or something (since bigger pots usually take longer).

Playing 5/10 at the wynn i won a 9k pot and tipped 20 bucks.

But usually just keep it to a dollar maybe 2 if im feeling generous, obv will go up a few bucks if the pot is decent sized.

nice comments, i agree with most, including some who said depends on how dealer handles himself and if hes good or not, the dealer i tipped 20 in was at 1/2nl in ac for a 3way 600 pot that i got lucky on turn, and he seemed very nice and reluctant that someone tipped him, idk it felt good tho. haha anyways when i play at mt airy in pa some 1/2 dealers are clueless and theres only one 2/5 tables running and half know how to deal other half are clueless but they pool their tips, so idk. thanks for the comments!