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Originally Posted by bolt2112
As so many who post in this thread are fond of pointing out.... and this is a summary, not an exact quote...
"Why should I tip more when I when a big pot? The dealer does basically the same amount of work whether I win a $150 pot or a $2500 pot. Either way, $1 for a minute or two of work by the dealer is plenty."
Now flip it to the micro-stakes players. I know of exactly zero $2/4 players who can make a living at that table. I've probably met 1 or 2 in my life who even show a profit over any reasonable amount of time at the table in terms of sample size (and I wouldn't hazard a guess of which 1 or 2 players they might be.) They're all playing to kill time, to be social, or to chase the dream of winning a high hand jackpot or a bbj.
And yet I have to do the same amount of work to deal these players a hand as I do to deal a hand of $25/50 NLHE. In fact, I probably have to do more work at the micro-stakes table because the players are constantly exposing their hands, betting out of turn, and talking about hand-holdings when they shouldn't be discussing the hand at all. So I have to be extra vigilant about doing my job in order to protect the integrity of the game. Why shouldn't I expect to be tipped at the $2/4 table just as well as I am at the nosebleed table? Do I become less valuable just because the rotation sends me from table 11 to table 6 for half an hour?
Or are you endorsing the notion that $25/50 players should tip considerably more than the micro players? You can't have it both ways.
Not sure where you got all that from. Dude asked a question, got an answer, told him it was unreasonable, albeit it a bit rudely, and you accuse him of ripping into him.
My position has always been tipping should be abolished - for everything, for numerous reasons, but since that won't happen, this is my policy:
If a stellar dealer is in the box, he's getting tipped well on everything I drag, and if I didn't drag a pot, the dealer is getting the difference when he or she is pushed no matter how much I'm in the game for. If the hand was technical, time consuming, etc., they're getting more for that. If the down was a difficult one with cheap sour pusses and he or she handled it professionally, they are getting a bonus when pushed. If the dealer sucks, then his tips suck. Pot size? Nope. It's a meaningless metric; I tip based on performance. Everyone should, and watch the incompetent dealers disappear.