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Do you tip the chip runners?

View Poll Results: Do you tip the chip runners?

I always tip

7 63.64%

I usually tip

0 0%

I don't tip when I'm losing and reloading

1 9.09%

I'm a douche who never tips

3 27.27%

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06-23-2008 , 12:13 PM

Big Bend

National Park

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,311

I always tip the chip runners. Even when I'm losing. I'm lucky enough to be able to play a game and not be the one with the crappy job of running to a cashier cage back and forth all day. I don't think the chip runners make squat and to not tip them for the service is a serious douche bag behavior, like not tipping a waitress when she brings you a drink. Yet I see it all the time, more often than not it seems, most people just don't give them a measly dollar.

So if you don't tip the chip runners, whats your excuse?

L8r.. BB

06-23-2008 , 12:21 PM

redtrain

old hand

Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,517

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Bend

I always tip, but I also will avoid the chip runner's services mostly, i.e. buying chips at cage and getting some extra blacks for my pocket or playing cash on a rebuy and buying from another player

06-23-2008 , 12:23 PM

smurg

old hand

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,448

Do you tip the cashier for ringing up your Twix bar? It's not your problem that they are payed a measly wage, it's the casino's.

Although I haven't played live yet, I would plan on getting my own chips before sitting down.

06-23-2008 , 12:44 PM

LasVegasMichael

old hand

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,638

Quote:

Originally Posted by smurg

Although I haven't played live yet...

Couldn't you have opened with this? It would have saved me the time and annoyance of reading the rest of your post.

Anyways, yes, I always tip the chip runner (and the dealers, the floormen, the cashier {when cashing out} the card manager, and the shift manager). I play live poker regularly, and know how it works.

Last edited by LasVegasMichael; 06-23-2008 at 12:50 PM.

06-23-2008 , 12:48 PM

TomTom

adept

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 832

If I go to a cage I don't tip.

If someone has to make a trip there and back for me to get me chips, I tip.

If I want to be cheap I make the walk myself.

06-23-2008 , 12:53 PM

Howard Beale

Formerly red

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22,190

$1 to the chip runner.

btw: I know a retired guy who took a chip runner job just to have something to do. All that walking got him to lose 30 lbs. If this became common knowledge the casinos could get ppl to pay THEM for the job instead of the health clubs.

06-23-2008 , 12:56 PM

ArtieFish

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 328

I only play at Foxwoods, but haven't played in like 3 months. Last time I checked they don't have this service, but if they did I would always tip.

I could be wrong, do you request for it? They have chips right at the table so...

06-23-2008 , 12:56 PM

AngusThermopyle

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 14,929

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Bend

So if you don't tip the chip runners, whats your excuse?

I do it in order to tick off arrogant people who want to tell me how to spend my money.

06-23-2008 , 12:58 PM

*TT*

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 22,860

locked - threads about opinions on tipping aren't welcome, tipping is a personal decision.

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