Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
I've never had any casino employee EVER wait around for a tip. Sometimes, I have to "chase after" a floor person at Caesars or Rincon to tip them. They routinely hand me the paperwork and the money and turn and start walking. So in short, I've never had an experience of workers "wanting" or "expecting" tips.
Even when I've played cash games at poker dealers do not have their "hands out." I often forget to tip at cash games because I usually play tournaments where there is no tipping on individual hands -- and no poker dealer has ever given me a bad look or an angry face. And when I "catch myself" for not tipping, I always get a warm thank you and smile.
Now about the subject of tipping: I don't mind tipping at all. Yes, I agree that the casinos should pay these people more, and even if they were better paid I probably would still tip as appropriate... just as I tip house keepers, and cab drivers, and valets, and waitresses, etc.
However, with that said, twice I was at craps tables where the dealers were "tip hustling" but that was the exception. It happened twice in more than 20 years of going to casinos.