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Originally Posted by pig4bill
I noticed at Bellagio that some dealers throw a red chip into the thing on the flop even if there's only 30-40 bucks in the pot.
Dealers should never be removing any rake in the middle of the hand; they should be setting it off to side, and waiting until the hand is over to drop it.
Sometimes dealers will temporarily set a red chip off to the side for rake even when the pot hasn't reached the $5 threshold. But if the pot remains lower than this threshold at the end of the hand, they will make change from this chip and put the appropriate amount back in the pot before dropping the rest.