ridiculous tips?!!?

[pokerb]

was over at a local cardroom the other nite playing 5/5NL.
so obviously all we were playing with was with nickel and quarter chips and no single chips were on the table.
after the end of every hand the players would tip a MINIMUM of 5 bucks, and very often they would get tips anywhere between 10-30 bucks a hand! i calculated an average of about 80-100 bucks per half hour!
i won a 1k pot and felt "obligated" to tip 10bucks but the thing is i am used to tippin 1-5 bux a hand in casinos. am i being cheap or this is just an extreme case of "over" tipping?

[Mygtar]

Over tipping, big time.

[MediaPA]

silly overtipping. However, if the game is good enough, don't rock the boat. Go with the flow and look like you are there to have fun.

Evil of 5/5 is there really isn't a need for whites to be on the table often. Games I played that are raked ($4 max), the $1 change that usually is there gets fired to the dealer as the tip.

[David]

I run a game, usually 2 tables, with semi-professional dealers. We play once a week and the dealers are each averaging over $500 a night-$71 per hour! Crazy, but I'm happy for them. They do deal straight through with few breaks.

[zuluking]

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However, if the game is good enough, don't rock the boat. Go with the flow and look like you are there to have fun.

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Yes, but there is a fine line between tipping away too much of your profit and not rocking the boat. I find that 5/5 NL games that become LAGfests also become "tipfests" as the alcohol flows during the night. You just gotta find that good balance.

[psandman]

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I run a game, usually 2 tables, with semi-professional dealers. We play once a week and the dealers are each averaging over $500 a night-$71 per hour! Crazy, but I'm happy for them. They do deal straight through with few breaks.

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Do you need any more dealers?

[midwestkc]

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I run a game, usually 2 tables, with semi-professional dealers. We play once a week and the dealers are each averaging over $500 a night-$71 per hour! Crazy, but I'm happy for them. They do deal straight through with few breaks.

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Do you need any more dealers?

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[dicelumpY2005]

Players will often toss a nickel in and ask to break it down to whites. You are right, tho...unless the average stack on a big game like that is 2-3k, then a nickel a pop seems excessive. I can see where it does kind of suck if you are in a game with 7-8 other people who are probably very well off financialy and don't care what they are tipping.

[TMTTR]

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was over at a local cardroom the other nite playing 5/5NL.
so obviously all we were playing with was with nickel and quarter chips and no single chips were on the table.
after the end of every hand the players would tip a MINIMUM of 5 bucks, and very often they would get tips anywhere between 10-30 bucks a hand! i calculated an average of about 80-100 bucks per half hour!
i won a 1k pot and felt "obligated" to tip 10bucks but the thing is i am used to tippin 1-5 bux a hand in casinos. am i being cheap or this is just an extreme case of "over" tipping?

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"Chop one, please."

[bigfishead]

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I run a game, usually 2 tables, with semi-professional dealers. We play once a week and the dealers are each averaging over $500 a night-$71 per hour! Crazy, but I'm happy for them. They do deal straight through with few breaks.

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Do you need any more dealers?

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I sure hope that was a joke Psandman. I've seen too many decent & good dealers lose thier gaming cards permanately in house games. The short term just aint worth the long term in this business.