Your new WSOP champ is a chump.

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Michael O' Malley is of course correct.

<font color="red">m1illion said:

i don't think it's about the bottom line as much as it is about the gesture. Greg(as was posted) tipped 50k, a fine amount that shows he at least aknowledged the work done. 100 bucks is just cruel

Al Capone Junior said:

Raymer has already proven himself to be a classy guy in the past, why would we be surprised if he left a particularly generous tip after winning a large sum of money?</font>

If this is true, that Greg Raymer left an ADDITIONAL $50,000 (which I seriously doubt, because Raymer is a smart guy) then I have lost all respect for him. If it is true, then he is indeed a fool.

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You wont have a need to lose respect for Greg.
The day after Greg won the Main Event we sat down and I explained to him how much money was taken out of the prize pool for the staff and exactly where that money went to. I even gave him a breakdown of about how much everyone would get.
Being the intelligent guy that he is and having been smart enough to get as much information as he possibly could, Greg then made an educated decision to leave an additional amount. He knew exactly where it would go and about how much everyone would receive out of that additional money.
There has never been a smarter tipper than Greg was on that day (excluding Barry Greenstein who takes a similar approach when he tips).

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Years ago, Greg had a number of posts on this forum (or maybe it was the MTT forum) in answer to the inevitable posts about how much one should tip. He talked about computing the number of dealers and the number of man-hours worked and so on and so forth, blah blah blah, all with the aim of coming up with a fair number. He took this kind of calculating approach long before he ever knew he would win the ME, so yeah, I can't say as how any of this surprises me.