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We tip the dealer because we want good dealers and if you don't pay them you won't have any. So you either tip them to reward those who are good and keep them there. Or you put them into an anal reward based hourly wage which would never be able to appropriately reward those who are good or bad. And would raise the rake to cover it...

Look at it this way. Dealers expect to make X$ per hour over all dealers combined. If you paid them an hourly wage and no tips, that X$ per hour will be taken out in rake and you will pay it from the winning pot anyways.

If you pay them with tips instead, then you can reward the good and stiff the bad. And those who want to make more will work more on their craft and be rewarded appropriately.

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I will be glad when the moderator locks or deletes this thread.

We don't need another flame war over tipping.

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Lol, dude why are you so anal about this? It doesn't need to be a flame war.

Its just highly irrational that dealers should expect tips from players, and I want to see why people think the opposite.

Still, to this day, I have never heard a good case for why the dealer should expect tips (muchless even be considered to get a tip).

Its quite clear that tipping the dealer is a tradition that was established long ago, its like a story that keeps getting passed on and read by the next generation.

Except, no one is quite sure why we tip dealers.

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