[that_pope]

I pay out of my stack, but I am a limit player who always have enough on the table to go plenty of bets (usually everyone covered if I am up more than a rack) unless I am on some long tilt driven journey that usually only happens once or twice a year.

But you bring up a point I thought of a few years ago when playing 1/2 NL at IP. They had a max buy-in of $100 at the time, and I had about doubled up when I got into a big pot with a player who had me covered. I had flopped top set w/ aces and led into the pot after raising preflop. As he was contemplating his action, the drink lady came by and being the alcoholic I am, I had to tip her $1 for my Corona she was bringing me. The guy pushed all in, I tipped her a dollar from my stack and called...if I had done it out of my pocket, $1 more for me, but that is pretty nitty now isn't it...