Originally Posted by plz fold

When I was a broke college donk $100 was like some crazy amt for me and I tipped a lot for what I thought were "big" pots that were in reality tiny. I assume that's how most poor people think and thats why they tip so much.

Originally Posted by plz fold

Back when I played 1/1 and 1/2 20bb cap games in SoCal with $4+1 auto drop, I regularly saw people tipping $1 every hand no matter what, $2-5 whenever a pot got over $100 and if a pot got into multiple hundreds people would tip like $10. It wasn't uncommon for some donks to tip like a quarter of the pot if they massively sucked out on someone because they really believe in superstition and dealers controlling the cards. I don't think I've ever seen a non super rich businessman tip more than $5 in any pot in 5/10+, and even then that's only for the $5k pots.

When I was a broke college donk $100 was like some crazy amt for me and I tipped a lot for what I thought were "big" pots that were in reality tiny. I assume that's how most poor people think and thats why they tip so much.

Originally Posted by ashiXIII

do you have a link to this article anywhere? I'd like to read it. and just a nit pick, but they're not under-tipping, you're over-tipping.

Originally Posted by COCOCHANEL

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Mike Caro wrote an article some time ago about why it's improper to toke dealers more than $1 per hand, even in high-limit games. Every dealer who knows of this article HATES M.C. for having written it, and I hear players discussing it from time-to-time on the 20 game where I play (generally using at is a justification for under-tipping the dealers, seems like).

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