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Usually people with your view don't understand the cost of poker. Say you tip $1/pot. You win an average of 3.5 pots per hour and you play 30 hours a week. That's $105 / week or $5460 / year. I don't see how that's tiny.
I understand the cost of poker about as well as anyone in this forum.
I would doubt even 1% of live poker players play cash games 30+ hours weekly.
Someone might win 3.5 pots hourly, but not all of that sample will be pots they'd be tipping on to begin with. You're going to have some of them be tiny preflop-raise-and-take-it pots, and some other ones would be small postflop pots that you wouldn't be tipping on at all.
You also have no way of knowing whether or not your "saved" tips will be there at the end of the session. If you save $X in your first couple of hours by not tipping, that doesn't mean you're going to cash out $X more than you would have had you tipped.
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Usually, it's casual players who think you should tip a lot. Not regulars. Over my entire poker career I've played 2100 hours and I'm up less than $2000 over that time. The amount I've paid in drop/rake + tips is over $25,000 ... there you go ... that's the cost of poker. Not tipping at all would raise my over all result by about $7000, a 350% increase!
Fantastic. Apply your method then - don't tip at all. Get everyone else to not tip at all, either. Riches for everyone, right?
No.
One of two things would happen if everyone suddenly stopped tipping. One - the casino starts paying an hourly wage to dealers to compensate them for what they're not making in tips. The casino is not going to eat this cost, and the money isn't going to fall from a tree. It's going to mean a big rake increase, which means you lose back the money anyway.
Two - games become self-dealt. A self-dealt casino game where the deck was passed would be the equivalent of watching someone blind and illiterate play Scrabble in a darkened room with the tiles turned upside down. Would you prefer 12 hands an hour and cards flipped every three minutes over tipping?