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Originally Posted by 2OutsNoProb
Of course it would exist anyway. If everyone decided to stop tipping, wages would increase, since dealers wouldn't work for $4.25 or whatever hourly. These wages would come in the form of increased rake. You'd be paying it anyway.
This is how I look at it. I usually end up tipping what I think is my fair share of a generous wage (even though I feel I could not tip at all and they'd still get there). The problem is tipping like that still gets you called cheap in the games I play plus it costs you the money (a significant amount when you're getting called cheap anyway).
The games I tip to convention are the games you can get booted from if you don't or the ones where I'm afraid of getting cheated at some point. That's really what higher stakes tipping is imo. It's a bribe to not get cheated at some point. Makes me feel gross.
That said, higher stakes games do deserve higher tips. The games are actually a service at that level. Casinos should get rid of their lower stakes games imo. They're robbing those folks and offering them next to nothing. You don't need a casino to play poker for a couple hundred bucks and can do it much better without them.