[jjshabado]

Don't dealers already get merit pay, ie. tips?

Everybody talks about how dealers at Foxwoods suck because the tips are pooled and there is no incentive to be better. Isn't the corollary of that, that individual tips cause dealers to try harder and work smarter thus improving their abilities.

Is there any evidence that some additional incentive would actually be effective?

This is actually why I hate the standard tip for all dealers policy. As players we're removing the main tool we have for improving our dealers.