I think this discussion deserves a thread of its own.

I think craps players tip more than video poker and slots players -- and if anyone "overtips" it's craps players. Here's why.

It's all a matter of percentages.

I don't know any video poker or slots players who tip without winning first and without a hand pay.

If I get a handpay of $1250 (four of a kind in many $5/coin games) my usual tip is $10. At Bellagio the last ten dollars of the hand pay comes with two $5 bills and that makes it easy to tip $5 and that's what I do at Bellagio.

A $10 tip on a $1,250 hand pay is 8/10 of 1%.
A $5 tip on a $1,250 hand pay is 4/10 of 1%.

Now, tipping at craps.

There are various ways to tip at craps. You can hand in the money (dealer hand in) which goes right in the tip box, or you can make a bet for the dealers. When you make the bets for the dealers the tip percentage skyrockets.

Let's say you are at a $25 table and you make a pass. You might make on the next come-out roll a $5 or a $10 passline bet for the dealers. At $5 the percentage of the bet is 20% of your own bet. At $10 it's 40% of your own bet.

Suppose you make a $5 hardway bet on the 8 for the dealers when the point is 8. If you are at a $10 table with full odds you've bet $60 on yourself with full 5X odds. That $5 hardway bet for the dealers becomes 8.33% of your own wager.

If the $5 hardway bet hits, the dealers get $50 which becomes 83.33% of your own original wager.

What makes the craps players even bigger tippers and they don't realize it, is that they can make these bets even when they are not winning, and they can make these bets multiple times.

I'm not a critic of tipping, as you know. But before you criticize video poker players for handing over tips of $5 and $10 on minimal hand pays, consider what craps players are handing out without wins as big as $1250.