Rooming with him at Excalibur and he's teaching me how to stiff dealers and make it seem like you didn't just stiff the dealer lmao

You didn't need help in that area.

He plays so few hands that tipping/not tipping is irrelephant.

Not to mention, if y'all are saving ducats by not tipping--you're doing it wrong and should get office jobs.

Good luck, you monkeys!

Lmao p4ms is really giggling and having a conversation with someone in his sleep right now

Last night I walked into the room, he was already asleep, and he half wakes up and says out loud "you have to make 50% of your free throws"

Lollll fun times in Vegas

You should make way more than 50%

dreaming of the spurs, ldo

Dukes thread becoming D-league meetup thread?

Duke and p4ms should show up for tonight's **** show imo.

:beer: I will spend whatever time is necessary to address your problems and concerns.

Resorting to stiffing dealers is pathetic.

This is DEFINITELY not the case. I tip "ok", duke is severely exaggerating. like if I win a big pot I'll tip say $3, but to maximize effect I'll sprinkle them one at a time to maximize effect, or something along those lines

I do play a lot of pots, but it just so happens you are so aggro I have no choice to but to sit back when you're in charge of the table different styles for different games. I'd hate money if I played otherwise at your table

@ zoltan, are you in Vegas?

I assumed it wasn't the case, but to be fair I'm a nihilist and this shouldn't make me angry. Perhaps it does because I do tip dealers, or perhaps it just makes me feel good to express false outrage.

Oh another thing you can do is stagger your tips. Ie tip $1 right away. Then stack your chips. Then tip another $1. The dealer will thank you twice.

Touché, Monsieur Norris.

I am, where da fuq you been? Besides in nonshenanigansland.

:beer: I will spend whatever time is necessary to address your problems and concerns.

Lol this is what he does!! He calls it the "sprinkle method"

It makes you seem like a better tipper than you actually are lol

At the casino I play at a dealer ran into a young grinder in the bathroom and told him "Don't EVER tip me again!" and the young grinder was like "WTF" but apparently all the dealers were pissed about him stiffing them on tips and he really had no clue lol.

Heh, I've got a "sprinkle method" for you.

:beer: I will spend whatever time is necessary to address your problems and concerns.

This is exactly what the sprinkle method is

This is terrible ethics on the dealers part. Wow. Idc how bad he tips

Isn't tipping $1, no more no less, when you win a hand that saw a flop the poker equivalent of being a 15% tipper at a restaurant?

I think tipping $1 on a $1000 pot would be bad. I usually don't tip on pots under $50.

I tip $5 for $500+ profit. But that's a lot if my entire income comes from poker.

My biggest tip given was $10 in the $4700 pot I won in la

$1 if you see a flop $2-$3 for stacking a fool

I go $1 for a decent pot. Sometimes if it's a $10 pot and there was a flop, I won't tip there. I mean, I only win so many pots. Giving away 1/7th of my profit on a hand isn't my idea of how to maximize my win rate.

I usually just tip $2 for any major pot now. I will go bigger ($5 or $10 on the occasional 200 BB+ pot).

I don't think there's a dealer in my rooms that has any problem with how I tip. I've even explained to a few of them why I no longer tip EVERY hand.

I also went through a period where I would just toss each dealer $1 at the end of their down but stopped that after a month or so. (That was a suggestion from another dealer). It was a way to keep the tips per hand smaller.

Since we're all turning Duke's thread into the tipping containment thread, I go $1 on most pots over $10 if they see a flop (I never tip on preflop pots, no matter how big). I go $2 to $3 on big pots (usually something like over $250 won so $500+ in the pot).

I never tip on pots of $6 or less, and if it's in that $7 to $10 range and gets to the turn/river, I usually throw a dollar anyway.

This all adds up to about $3/hr, which is about 15% of a solid winner's winrate. I've started tipping bad dealers less and good dealers more, but it averages the same.

For what it's worth, when I was briefly at 2/5 I didn't really tip much more. I'd throw $2 instead of $1 more often, and obviously there are more tip-worthy pots since almost every one is big enough.

I figure if a dealer gets out an average of 30 hands per hour and averages $1/pot, which I'd imagine they do (even if they get stiffed 5 times per hour, they get a redbird now and then from rec players), they're getting $30/hr which is very solid.

nothing wrong with $1 tips on big pots. dealers will do very well if everyone tips $1 every hand. i think $5 is way too much but i guess i can understand the reasoning if your not giving on small pots. i wouldn't tip that much though. i always tip $1 if their is a flop and $2 if it's about $200+. i never tip more than $2 unless i'm dealt a high hand bonus. i'll tip 3% of any bonus money.

I don't play live but started to think about getting into it next year so I know nothing about tipping. But isnt that huge? I mean.. for a player that will play 2000 hours in a year, say his winrate is $30/h, then that would be 9000$ in tips per year, almost 900$ per month. Is that just standard? Looking at it this way the numbers seem huuge, but maybe I am wrong and that is just standard (especially since there is no official rakeback (esp in london)).