Originally Posted by RS__ View Post
If an AP, or any player for that matter, tipped 10% of the RF to the slot attendant, the royal would then return 1.8% (90% of 2% is 1.8%....or 0.02 * 0.9 = 0.018). In other words, you're losing 0.2% of your overall return if you tip a [massive] 10% of the handpay. Your new return is now approx. 99.34%. If that extra 0.2% causes you to have problems...you're in the wrong business. Of course, this only takes into account handpays on royal flushes.
I'm having a problem understanding this. Let's take my $100,000 royal for example. If I gave a tip of 10% which would have been $10,000 that would have been half of a $5 royal and in some cases could tip the scales between a profitable year and a losing year.

My point is while "percentages" might look small, the actual dollar value can be huge.