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Originally Posted by AngusThermopyle
1. They get Nevada minimum wage. Like California and other West Coast states, Nevada does not give an exemption for tipped employees.
Did not know that. My bad.
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Originally Posted by AngusThermopyle
2. Downs? Ask the TD. And you will get the same response that most TD's give. That is, either "I don't know yet" or "I cannot give out that information"
I understand this. I was hoping somebody might be able to get a good estimate.
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Originally Posted by AngusThermopyle
3. The more downs there are, the more any tip gets chopped up. If you tipped $12K in last year's ME, then each tip portion of a down would increase by 1%. So, in your examples, $40/hr -> $40.40/hr and $4/hr -> $4.04/hr
I get this. The main point of my post is that the more downs there are, the more stretched out the original $1.2 million is. The less downs the more meaningful that sum is. If there are few enough downs, the dealers may be getting too much anyway even if not a single winner gave a single tip. As the number of downs gets higher, then an appropriate tip gets asymptotically (is that a word?) closer to the same amount it would be if they didn't take out anything.
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4. This year the Colossus hurt the dealers tip pool. It took roughly twice the dealer/hours that the Million Maker did to complete, but charged the same total staff take out. So the per downs were half for the Colossua. And the dealers were not happy.
This seems like a case can be made for having tips forbidden (in tournaments only, not cash games), and an appropriate amount taken out at the beginning. I'm sure a TD would have a good idea of how many downs/runner a tournament will have given it's structure. They obviously need to make this kind of estimate when figuring out their staffing needs for a tourney.
I obviously, am not holding my breath for this to happen.