Tip the dealer

So what is the appropriate amount to tip a dealer at a casino? Obviously blind size matters so for all intensive purposes lets assume $1/2 blinds. Do you tip every hand that you win? Do you just tip once --- when you leave the table? Thanks.

Well, if you pay attention to everyone else at the table with you, you
will see that they tip pretty much everyhand they win. Its not something
that you just have to do but Everyone Does. The dealers get paid pretty
much like a waitress would at a restraunt, they have to make tips. So
that pretty much sums it all up. hope this helps you out in the future.
Goodluck and hope to see you on the felt soon. GL

Yeah it's up to you if you want to tip the dealer, and in general, they do a decent job and like aceup said, don't get big pay really. If you do wish to tip the dealer, waiting till you leave may not be the best way as sometimes dealers change/alternate. Also when you are leaving the table, on occasions it might be because you are broke.

Depends on where you are. The dealers I know in Nevada are above waitress minimum wage. IMO, depends on the size of the pot won, not necessarily every hand especially at 1/2 when the pots can be small-ish.

Some of it depends on the dealer as well. Friendly? Efficient at handling the cards? Follows the action well? In casinos, toke rules vary House to House for employees. Some pool the dealer tokes (few get to keep their own) while others may pool the floor tips and distribute according to hours worked, and varied other methods.

We have a few live dealers in this forum that post from time to time and have seen a number of variations. A dealer would LOVE you to toke them every hand, but that isn't likely. Be reasonable, but there is no 'standard'.

I play $2/4$ Limit and occasionally $1/$2 No Limit. At my casino the custom is to tip the dealer $1 every time you win a hand and $2 if it's a really big pot. At the $2/$5 No Limit tables, a tip of $5 on each winning hand with a decent size pot is standard. In some casinos, dealers make more than minimum wage, in most they do not. Basically, in those casinos where they make little money per hour, their hourly wage just pays their taxes and their take home pay is made through their tips.

The obvious exception is if your table breaks the bad beat jackpot! Ours is currently at $166,000 and we almost hit it 6 times yesterday at my table. I was hoping to be able to tip the dealer REALLY big...but, alas, no such luck. When the bad beat has been broken before, when it was much smaller, the big winner has tipped $1000, the 2nd winner tipped $500, and every other player at the table tipped $100. If I would have hit the bad beat and been the big winner (whose hand was beaten), I was planning on tipping any amount above my 50% of the pot, which would have been slightly over $3000, leaving me a cool $80,000 to take home.

I think about 10% is standard for any pot between $50-$1000 and 5% there-after IMO.

you aren't going to tip if you just pick up the blinds or anything. i usually tip after i win a decent pot. and the most i would tip at 1/2 is 2.

i dont really play cash tables but this was a question i had and im glad that you guys answered it for me tahnk you. the waitress part really helped me to understand how to tip the dealer.

I tip $1 for any pot I win that gets to at least the flop.

-Raymond

the only time i would not tip a hand that i won is if it is a very small pot that i had to earn, bluff,

Even on High Stakes you don't see them throw more than a few $5 chips the dealers way, and they are usually raking big hands, but they tip almost every win.

at 1/2, what i do is a buck for everyone in the pot on normal hands (so i win at showdown with say 30 in the pot total and 3 players in - that would be 3 bucks)

i tip up to 5 per player in the pot if it is a bigger one (so lets say 3 people allin and the pot is 300, i would give three five dollar chips)

obv the examples are not likely to happen but it gives an idea on what i do

also even looking at it, it seems like it would be too little, but i usually tip more than anyone else (or equal to most regs i guess)
i guess that the volume is where they make their tip money at

also at the end of the night, if i have done well, i will walk over and talk with the dealer(s) for a bit and give them a few 5 dollar chips - i was informed that this probably isnt supposed to happen away from the table because of obv reasons as to how it looks - my local casino is so small that it doesnt matter much there and it is usually all local regs though

i guess rereading it, it is a decent ammount to tips, esp when taking into account what the rake is online for a reference

I only like to tip the dealer if i win a larger then normal size pot. I dont tip on like a 20$ pot, or anything like that. but when i win a 50+ hand then i always tip at least 5. I mean after all it is his job to deal you the cards, but a little tip for a monster hand is always worth it, what goes around comes around i always think

Go with the Flow.

Tips very from Casino to Casino and location to location.
The best advice I can give you is watch what is normal for the Table you are sitting at.

Don't under tip.
Don't over tip.

Please realize many dealers don't get there own tips.
They are pooled together and then split up.

Tip and enjoy the game.