"25% of your action" and the high hand jackpot -- story + poll

[tyler_cracker]

Thanks for the replies and votes. Not surprisingly, the overwhelming majority believes in doing the right thing. This is particularly non-surprising since none of it is your money.

The high hand was $933. This isn't a life changing amount of money, but it is the most money i have ever won at anything, ever. I cashed out for the night with $1352, which is by far the most chips i have ever lugged across a poker room floor. +36BB in 2 hours in addition to the jackpot. Poker is easy.

Because the jackpot is over $600, i had to fill out a W2-G and will have to pay taxes on the monies. Clearly, some amount of the jackpot needs to be removed for tax purposes before Slim gets his cut. What do y'all think is a reasonable amount to withhold?

I also decided long ago that 5% is a reasonable amount to tip on jackpots. In this case, i pushed the dealer $53 (5% + round it up + the extra 3 browns).

Soon after, this old guy starts berating me for being "cheap, cheap, cheap. Almost $1000 and that's all you gave her. You're a cheap bastard." I told him i was going to be polite and ignore him, so he continued to berate me for a bit then walked over to the dealer in question (who was now on her break) and presumably berated me there for a while.

I am a veteran (or at least an old hand) at the Gold Cizzle, so i'm used to dealing with cranky nits, but taking the piss out of an elderly fellow while i've got two racks of red sitting next to my 6-deep pyramid of browns wouldn't exactly be gracious winning. Still, the Brick & Mortar Forum seems like a good place to enjoy hypothetical Slings & Arrows that i could have slung at him. Who has good ones?