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Originally Posted by dassem_ultor
At this point this question is purely hypothetical, but it was something I was thinking about.
I have been playing live poker for over 10 years without getting so much as a table share. Just doing some rough math lets say I played 10 hours/week (probably low estimate) * 50 weeks * 10 years, so I have played ~50,000 hours, and even if I only won 3 hands an hour (also probably low) I would have payed ~$150k to the bad beat jackpot, without getting a penny back.
So lets say I actually get a jackpot (or even just a table share), even if it is something massive like $20k I am still massively in the negative. So looking at it this way should I really feel obligated to tip the floormen/dealers/chip runners/etc?
I probably will, but all the same if you look at it logically doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
Well, if you look at it in this way, you shouldn't be tipping period since poker is a -EV game because of the rake.
Most importantly, your math is off by a
factor of 10:
($3 BBJ rake/hr)*(10 hr/week)*(50 weeks/yr)(10 years) = $15,000 estimated BBJ rake collected, not $150k. So winning a loser's share of the BBJ should hopefully bring you back into the black at least.
Also BBJ contributions are not usually dropped in small pots, so assuming ~$30/hr comes off of the table for the BBJ may be a little high.