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Originally Posted by NickMPK
To be fair, there is a fairly well-established list of professions where tips are expected. Waiters and poker dealers are clealy on that list. I've never heard of bookies being on it though.
This. Tipped people are usually delivering a personal service were the tip is designed to reward or encourage a higher level of service and their compensation is usually built around the expectation of tips (i.e. in most states poker dealers and waitresses are allowed to be paid below minimum wage). A cashier on the other hand (and that is what the person counting the money out for you at the sportsbook is) is simply completing a transaction for you on behalf of the casino and no tip should be expected. It would make about as much sense as expecting the casino to tip the runner a sports better sends to place his bet in the first place. For you people outraged by Phil Mickelson not tipping, do you tip the check out clerk at the grocery store when you have a particularly full cart? It is the exact same thing.