5 handed, final table, dealing small tourney, I give a guy a high hand. str8 flush to the jack, spades. It holds. It's half of the cash game $500 high hand since it's a tourney; so, it's $250. It's a $25 bounty tourney, so every KO gets you a $25 chip.
I am hitting this guy over and over. He is making the worst calls and I am rewarding him. Finally, I deal the str8 slush. I yell, high hand. As I'm pushing him the pot another player says, "Make sure you take care of the dealer". The guy i give the high hand to is old, kind of senile. He keeps either acting like he doesn't hear the guy or truly can't hear the guy. Repeating "what?" and "huh" over and over and leaning in and if trying to hear. Anyway, the whole table kind of gets involved and a tipping conversation happens. Everyone except the guy I gave the high hand to is talking about how "You, better take care of the dealer..." "Right thing to do..." all the good stuff
. I will say the guy i gave the high hand to was in seat 3. everyone else was in seat 5 - 10. They kinda were all sending bad vibes his way. They wouldn't chop because he was in it. seat 10 wanted to felt him so bad at the idea he wasn't gonna tip me.
Push ends. I do my usual "good luck high hand" speech and gesture and thumbs up and "you da man" finger points. Of course i over exaggerated it a bit this time. The table was like "good luck with that" and laughed. i go on break
An hour later they do decide to chop. Seat 10 chopped for most. I am standing behind the podium where the get cash out vouchers to take to the cashier and seat ten walks up to me hands me a green chip ($25) and declares in front of the guy i gave the high hand to and kind of the remaining players that chopped, " This is for the high hand, I think it's the right thing to do." I slowly grab for it and say thank you. The guy I gave the high hand to starts fumbling and bumbling with whatever he is holding, reaches in his pocket saying, " oh i was gonna take care of you" and he hands me a green chip. I offer to give seat ten his green chip back. he tells me to keep it. a couple minutes late a lady that chopped with them was getting her voucher and gave me a green chip as well. She said, "for the high hand" and gave me that sorry he didn't tip look. She must not have seen the two guys before. This time I just said thank you very much and put it in my box.
so yea, 75 off of a unique 250 brool story co