Comps and tips

[MDawg]

Back in the day quite a few places your comps covered tips even when not charging off to the room.
That's always nice because when using lavish food comps you oftentimes end up tipping more than it would cost you just to eat a normal meal.

Along with that this guy has never gotten a check for a table game win, has no idea how CTRs work and never had a credit line, add to the list that he has no idea how comp’ing works. Tips have never been covered by comps except in rare situations. Not back in the day, not ever. AWolf is how old? in his late forties? and he wrote recently that he was "not even old enough to gamble in part of the 90's." So, his idea of “back in the day” would be, what? 1999?

The policy in casinos has always been that tips are not covered by comps. In all of my literally a thousand or more RFB trips (each trip lasting anywhere from many days to many months) in casinos, only one time (maybe partially, twice) were tips covered and that tip where they were fully covered was in a Nevada casino but not in Las Vegas. The reason tips were covered that trip is I lost a lot of money which was unusual for me, so they felt sorry for me and comp’ed all my tips along with everything else to give me a zero balance. That particular trip I played at multiple casinos and won at the others, giving me a net win for the trip, but left the big loss intact at the one casino.

Dan Druff was correct to comment on that it was unusual for tips to have been covered that trip for him.

The main reason tips are never covered is to avoid collusion between the player and the recipient of the tip – here, let me tip you $1000. you hand me back $500. of it in cash, etc.