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Originally Posted by NickMPK
The dealer isn't responsible for -you- winning the pot, but the dealer is somewhat responsible for -someone- winning the pot. Having the winner tip a standard amount each hand is essentially the table collectively awarding the dealer for the service of dealing each hand, and allocating that collective responsibility to the player who can most afford to pay at the moment.
When you adopt your system, dealers get paid less when they deal you a lot of winning hands and more when they deal you no winning hands. That seems unfairly arbitrary from the dealer's perspective. Isn't this what you are trying to avoid?
Now, tipping on BBJP I don't understand at all, since this does -not- end up in any way being fairly distributed to dealer of for service they provide.
The worst dealer in the world deals a winner every hand. And while doing it they misdeal, split pots incorrectly, misdeal, push pots to wrong player, misread hands, deal the wrong game, deal in players who should be out, and deal out players who should be dealt in and don't remind the players to pay the player who put up the time pot (all of this happened to me last night BTW).
The difference between a bad and a good dealer might be only 20% more hands per down, but it can be a lot worse in making the game more frustrating, less fair and driving off players. To me it seems unfair to only tip a great dealer slightly more than a bad dealer.
And it's the exact opposite of arbitrary. At the end of every down the dealer knows exactly how well I feel they did. When I win no pots, but they remind me about the time pot, never misdeal, get hands out fast, and never chop/push a pot wrong, that's a great down and great service demands a good tip.
One important part of this approach is to try not to hold grudges. If a bad dealer has a good down you have to tip them, it's not only fair but communicates to them your expectations.