Tipping dealers
 

Well, I'll be making my first appearance at a casino poker table this week. What's the standard tip? I'll be playing mostly 1-2 NL I imagine.

My suggestion is that, unless you feel strongly one way or the other about tipping, watch the table and see what looks like SOP and do that.

I tend to tip $1 per pot over a given threshhold value (in 5/10 limit, the threshhold is about 4 big bets).

In reality, tipping is 100% voluntary, so you decide what you're most comfortable doing.

A buck a hand
 

Is pretty standard for the 3/6 and 4/8 limit games I play. I'll skip it if the pot is less than say $10, and will tip more if I'm on a roll or win a particularly large pot.

At the Casino I play 1/2 at, it is usually a standard $1 tip, if at all. (>80% tip there).

In NL I tip according to the size of the pot

One thing I noticed was in casinos (AC, Vegas) the avg tip was a lot less (a few bucks a hand at 2-5 Tables) where as in the rooms that I regularly go to, it's 5 bucks for a normal pot and 10+ for a huge one (but theres lot of action and lots of huge pots). See what the norm is and adjust according to the size of the pot -- i know i tipped a lot less in Vegas last summer than I do normally bc thats what the standard seemed to be (and i was playing the same 2-5 game Im used to but the max buy in was 500 instead of 1k so less $$$ was on the table)

Dealers in the rooms around here make $300-$1000 a night, im sure dealers in the casinos make a fraction of that

In Windsor, the poker room dealers (and all the dealers) pool their tips and get a daily or weekly (not sure) percentage based on hours worked. So no matter how hot the little red headed girl is who flopped me quad 2's in a raised pot against a turned set of aces and a rivered set of kings may be, she has to share my 10,000 dollar tip with the poxy faced 20 year old boy .who deals pai gow on the night shift. ;)

Foxwoods pools tips, too.

come to think of it, it is probably a common practice.