Entered my first tournament as a 21st birthday present and somehow won. 110 entries, bought in for 370 ended up chopping as chip leader for $3200. Tipped the casher outer 100. Is that customary? How much if anything should I have tipped?
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if by "casher-outter" you mean... the staff/dealers... 1-10% Usually closer to the 1% for most.
my biggest cash this summer in an event was 11k, I tipped 190ish on top of the staffing fee taken out of every buy in.
if by " casher outter" you mean the cage staff...idk...like 0-2 dollars.
maybe a 5 if you won nice and are feeling generous.
i have heard entitled cage staff complain when someone cashes out thousands in chips and doesn't tip after they leave. I don't think they understand he coulda been buried 20k at blackjack and cashed out 5k. etc.
plus they get standard wages are not dependent on tips.
Guess I was generous then. Thats alright, hope they’re happy
tip whatever makes you happy.
if it makes you feel good, and the money doesn't matter to you, tip the entire thing.
Also I will say, when we are talking small local events and not big events in the summer at the wsop with big staffing fees taken out and paid per down, you should lean way more the 10% side, espeically if its all the dealers are getting above the min wage.
dealers in small rooms typically do not like dealing those events because they make so much less than if they where put in the cash games.
Dude, 10% is fucking crazy. I’ve done close to it with high hands but looking back it’s fucking crazy.
I put it as the high end. Mainly because there are some events… such as local satellite… where the dealers are only getting paid sever wage of 2 bucks an hour or so, and no per down rate.
I played a cheap satellite earlier this year and won 1500 in it, I tipped 100 bucks, but the dealer dealt for 2 and a half hours, and only got paid 2$ an hour while doing so. So, they got around 40 an hour from that “big tip” which is about the same as they’d make in cash games during that period, maybe a bit more.