Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
A lot of professional blackjack players don't tip. I suspect it's because they are working to thin of an edge to tip the money off.
There's that, and the dealers often get too used to large tips on large wins, so they get nasty with you (or are just quietly rude) if you don't tip them "enough".

I used to tip the dealer $5 every so often. This wasn't for any +EV purpose. It's a myth that dealers increase penetration when you tip them. It's also a myth that they report you for card counting if you don't tip. But I felt that these dealers depended upon tips for a living, so I didn't want to stiff them.

However, I would have a $300 hand which splits and then doubles, and it would all win for $900. So I'd throw the dealer $5, and they would look at me like I'm the biggest asshole in the world.

I noticed that the recreational players were tipping $25 minimum in these spots, and I realized that my tips were being taken more as an insult than something nice.

So I just stopped tipping altogether at BJ.

Then I read that the dealers at the high end properties where I mostly played were making $90-$100k per year anyway, and I felt a lot less bad about stopping tipping anyway.