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so if we just ran a game there and took no rake and no tips the police wouldnt care? They will care if the dealer gets tipped a few bucks a night?

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My parents moved to Redmond, OR a few years ago and there used to be a bar downtown that spread some sick juicy 1/2 PLHE and PLO8 games. "Social gambling" is legal in Redmond, so they weren't allowed to rake the game (so...I'm still not entirely sure why they ran it, maybe just to get people into the bar and hope they ordered drinks?), and according to the people there this extended to tipping the dealer as well. The result: A jar next to the dealer saying "soda machine donations" (since free soda was provided) which obv everyone at the table knew was really going to the dealer.

The game eventually got shut down by the State. I have no idea if it was over tipping or what, and the reason the State used was that the game provided competition to the video poker machines in the bar. But yeah, in this instance even tipping wasn't ok.