There is a downside to making a tip bet. If your hand loses, the dealer receives no tip (the chip that you bet for the dealer now becomes part of the casino bank). However, even if the hand loses most dealers still appreciate the player's gesture. This is a less common, but what I consider to be a better way to tip the dealer. If you hit a Jackpot: It has been suggested that 10% of the winnings is great but 5% is good. I guess this depends if you are at a table game or any game with a dealer. If you win at a slot machine, tip the machine attendant 1% to 2%. Security Officers Suggested by Arsine Driscoll: Casino security is required to attend to all money transactions.

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SOOPOO

The problem with casino dealer tipping is that the tip does not go to the person who deserves it, but rather into a vat which is their wage pool. The snarly mean dealer gets the same benefit from your tip as the nice one you WANT to tip. The casino does NOT let you actually tip a dealer, they let you put money into a pot for all dealers to share. This is the BIG difference between tipping a dealer and tipping the cocktail waitress, or restaurant waitress.

buzzpaff

I will tip most of the dealers but I usually try to find a casino where tips are not pooled. Supposedly it makes little difference as to the quality of service you recieve.
I do not believe this. Poker dealers usually do not split tips and I have NEVER had a rude or ignorant poker delaer. But BJ dealers in
pooling situations, that is quite a different story.

zippyboy

Why is everyone talking about waitresses? This thread is about dealers, people. Obviously you tip a cocktail waitress a buck for your beer or she'll never come around again, and you can take your cheap ass up to the bar and pay $8 for one yourself.
And you tip something to the restaurant server, especially if you're a regular there. But dealers aren't going to spit on your cards if you don't tip, they're not going to pass you by when you have chips in the betting circle, and giving a big tip is NOT going to get you better cards next time. I couldn't give a shit if the dealer is surly or nice to me, just do your job and deal the cards. I'm not there to make friends, I'm there to make money.

If the dealer is a dick, sure, don't tip. But tipping under ordinary circumstances is not optional - sure, there won't be legal consequences to it, but dealers, servers, waiters, bartenders - everything is set up under the assumption that they'll be tipped, so if you don't tip them without a damn good reason, that is theft. It doesn't matter that you don't think it should be that way, it is.

Wizard would prolly put me in detention again if I truly spoke my mind on this asinine idea.
Do You Tip Casino Dealers

Speaking of dickish dealers..I had one Friday night and NO ONE was tipping him for 30-40 minutes till he was tapped out. I only play poker, but Friday I thought I'd unwind at a BJ double-deck game that was dealt face-down. I sat, and immediately there was a set-up change. Fine, I waited. First hand I got I reached down and peeked at my cards the way any poker player does and dealer screamed at me 'Hey! Stop bending the cards! God dammit, we just changed 'em! FLOOR!' Floor comes over and dealer whines the same lines to him. Floor looks at me and says 'These aren't poker cards, don't bend them.' 'Okay' I say. After that, the dealer pitched cards off the table 3 times to me, ogled the pretty girls walking by and shouted 'Seat open here Miss!', or if he liked her revealing top, he'd shout 'Hoooo, boy, purple's my favorite color! Seat open!', (one time he even called the floor over to compare one girl walking by to 'Jennifer', whoever she is), he watched the game on TV, he openly mocked players who couldn't add or acted too slowly. His small talk during the game was asking everyone's favorite movie western (or comedy, then our favorite prison movie), and then telling whoever answered why his choice was stupid. At one point, someone else had bent a card, and he called the floor over again. I said 'Isn't me this time', and he answered 'I know. It was this doofus over here.' as he motioned to a guy seated in the center. This idiot's arrogance, unprofessionalism and immaturity had me rolling my eyes at the depths he was willing to sink, and of course I never tipped him. No one did, ever.

'Poker sure is an easy game to beat if you have the roll to keep rebuying.'

FarFromVegas

At Casino Arizona, the dealers would bring their personal tip boxes with them as they changed tables. I assumed that meant the tips weren't pooled, but I may be mistaken. At least all the dealers were friendly there. And at some restaurants, waitstaff tips ARE pooled. I would personally not want to work that way, having worked with some slack-ass waitpersons before.

Each of us is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. Preparing for a fight about your bad decision is not as smart as making a good decision.

24Bingo

That right there - that's what I mean when I say tipping isn't optional. Not tipping dealers if they're jackasses is one thing, but not tipping dealers because there's little or no consequence to stiffing them is a lousy attitude to take, and yes, ethically tantamount to theft.
(And SOOPOO: while it's never fair to punish or reward an aggregate for the individual's merits, that's what ends up happening a lot in life, and it's no reason to screw them all - or reward them all, either. Besides, a lot of restaurants pool their tips, too, and not all casinos.)

The trick to poker is learning not to beat yourself up for your mistakes too much, and certainly not too little, but just the right amount.

rainman

I was getting up from the BJ table one day and the player on my left said don't forget to tip your dealer. So I looked in the dealers direction and said, here are two tips save your money and don't forget to eat your vegetables. I still go to this casino on occasion and as you can imagine the the dealers and floor treat me extra special. :)

Hunterhill

24Bingo, Let me take a wild guess are you a dealer?

Paigowdan

As it works out, pooled tips still have an incentive effect of helping dealer's attitudes.
First of all, all gratuity income is known to be based on courteous service, so that incentive always remains, pooled or not.
Secondly, dead-beat dealers hear from the hard-working dealers about 'stepping up service - as you're killing us all.'
I was talking about tips with a floorman who works as a dealer at another property, discussing those players who constantly say, 'I would TIP if I WERE WINNING -' like dealers have the option to stack the cards or swap in loaded dice.
To this, I usually say,
1. 'If I could stack the