It appears to be policy for the dealers at this casino I won't name to ask and assert that they color up any player who is leaving with 100 bucks or more. They don't have racks freely available on the floor for you to rack your own and take to the cage to exchange for cash.

They say it will make you easier to carry only 1 or more $100 dollar chips. The dealers sometimes run low on 1, 5 and 25 dollar chips, which is another reason they ask all players leaving the 1-2 NLHE game to color up with them. When you color up, the game stops, the dealer counts up your chips and ALWAYS must call over the floor to approve the bigger denominated chips leaving their rack and going out.

Sometimes this is quick if the dealer is fast and the floor nearby. I've also seen times the floor is busy (there's usually only 1 or 2 floor-persons in this small room) and we have to wait.

This casino has the slowest dealers in the region by far. It also appears to deal the fewest hands per hour, as new players can only buy chips at the table (the main and only cage in the casino does not supply chips at all). Poker dealers here do not keep their own tips. They are shared with the whole casino dealer staff.

I have and you may politely decline to be colored up and load your pockets with stacks of chips. However, some dealers insist and others don't care.

Given all these circumstances should you tip the dealer if they stop the game to color your chips? For the record I have tipped sometimes, and others not. Most of the time I don't want to be the guy to slow the game down and tell them that. Sometimes I only have 100-200 dollars in chips and can fit them in my pockets.

What is the appropriate etiquette, both in terms of tipping and playing?

What an awful policy. This isn't even a service; it's an anti-service.

No hell no.

I hate when dealers color up my chips anyways. I played hard for a long time to get big stacks. I want to play with my big stacks. I dont want to play with 1 stack and 8 big chips.

Also does your casino not have racks? I generally take 2, sometimes 3 or 4 racks to the casino cage and I'll often be sitting with racks on racks on racks if I'm playing real deepstacked. Nothing feels as baller as sliding 4 racks into the middle to go all in.

Mickey Mouse organization. Sounds like a poker room run by table games people.

To answer your question, tip if you feel like a service is being provided, don't tip of you feel like you're being hassled.

Did you even read the OP?

Who plays with racks on the table?

^ this

Playing out of racks is very common in LA

Next time you visit some other casino, borrow a rack from them. Then, just always bring it with you (if you carry a bag with headphones, water bottle, etc..., then its especially easy).

Bizzare thread...

Why would you want to carry full pockets of chips?
Why would you tip the dealer for coloring up? They aren't doing it because they like you, they're doing it because they have to.

Wow, OP. When I was reading this I thought you played in my casino.
It is very tilting, we may be getting 20 hands per hour due to the inefficiency of dealer/floor.

When I'm leaving the table with a large amount of the working chips, if the dealer has a bunch of big chips in his tray, as a courtesy I'll offer to buy them. It'll be that much longer until the table will need a fill. I wouldn't bother if the floor was required to come over and verify everything. Never once has it occurred to me to tip for this, as I'm doing them a favor just as much as they're doing me one.

I think if I was colouring up say $101, I'd prob tip the $1.

But then I usually count before I leave, and I might throw the dealer something if I have an odd amount and I think they've done a good job - regardless of them colouring me up or not

This. In LA a rack is like a placque in a euro casino. It's not uncommon at all to see players sitting with multiple racks, or even bet a rack in LA.

Jennifer Tilly.

Problem solved for $1.

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I have nothing to do with this company... I just did a quick google search.

^^^ I bought a poker chip set from them. First semi-decent set I've ever owned.

That rack may end up being in the pot by the time she gets too old

Tip because the house makes the dealers try to hassle you instead of enacting a more reasonable cash-in/cash-out policy? No, I don't think so.

+1 to bringing a rack from home or elsewhere and using it to pick up when you leave. Based on the way the house runs things, the more this happens, the more it will cost them chip-running time, and just maybe someone with a brain will notice this and push to revise the stupid policies.

****ing ridiculous. I did tip the bitch a dollar once . she was like ill chip u up if u tip me. I was like bitch plz you can has 1 dollar gimmie the greens.

Their policy is ridiculous.

A dealer giving you a hard time for wanting to just get up with your chips, is taking it way too far. They're your chips, you do what you want with them.

To answer your question, I wouldn't tip in this particular situation because they're not actually doing you a favor by request; this is just their standard MO. By not tipping, maybe if enough players follow suit, they'll stop this stupid procedure and invest in some racks or whatever. For me, personally, this stupid procedure would cost me around $300 a year.

That said, in my poker room, if I ask the dealer to color me up(which, admittedly is rare, and I'd only do this if the game just broke) then I'll always throw them $1 or $2 for their efforts.

I'm a dealer. Don't tip for that.

I'm also a player. If you're going to give away the odd one or two dollars, decide whether the dealers or the cage are less incompetent and give it to them.

Those are mutually exclusive events. Tipping has nothing to do with coloring

I do not think that "mutually exclusive" means what you think it means.