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Originally Posted by Richard32
I won an 800 dollar pot plus a 140 dollar high hand. Is a 25 dollar tip good enough? What’s “standard”
1) What % of the dealer's effort directly affects the outcome?
2) What % of the dealer's mandatory duties affect the outcome?
1) Dealer can put down cards faster or slower; in this hand the fractional microseconds time X average hourly win rate = faster efficiency proportionate relationship to win rate, but 0% as to which card comes off.
2) Dealer is required to deal all cards, but does not get to decide which card comes off, so again 0% to influence outcome.
In other areas where/when you tip, does tippee have ability to affect desired/improved outcome above/beyond requisite duties, then tip has incentive for both tipper and tippee and proportion scale can generate tip% relationship with regard to value of increased efficiency/satisfaction of desired result.
I believe tipping of poker dealers is entirely gratuitous hence the term, gratuity, and has little or otherwise no relationship to value of expected outcomes; the perception of 'luck dealer' is correlative, not causative.
I'm an admittedly Terrible Tom at the poker table - I just stopped tipping poker dealers as whole beginning about 5 years ago.
But a dealer I know socially outside the 'box' and for whom I have purchased many drinks when we socialize, did ask if I wanted to be dealt in even though I was talking with my friend at the nex table. She can deal right past me if she pleases. The smaller BBJP was hit ($25k) and at six handed, my split was $1,562.5.
Suffice it say, I took her and her sister + my gf out to nice dinner (4 course Prix-Fixe) along with all wine and cocktails. Bill is $880 for four + gratuity ($220), so I think she makes out better.
And in most cardrooms, dealers have to tip out a percentage to the floor which is just another thing I don't understand?
Last edited by sam7595; 04-21-2018 at 04:11 AM.