Dealing Poker Q&A -- Part 3

This summer will have about no poker, but it will have a lot of dealing poker. I'm dealing the summer poker series at The Orleans on W Tropicana in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 2024 Orleans Summer Open is the official name. Here are the tales.
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[@LGrcnjsn9]

I’m a travel dealer (dealt WSOP last 2 years, but doing Golden Nugget series this year instead). Next stop Choctaw, then St. Louis, then Graton, then Council Bluffs, then Oregon, etc. If you need any help with any questions, or want to do a collab video answering any questions I’d be willing to help out.

[@mikelewis3739]

Get a life ^

[@bennybeeeee]

A travel dealer probably has a pretty good life. Better than a mis-reg from reno, mike

[@kylebrown8345]

What series in Oregon?

[@LGrcnjsn9]

@@mikelewis3739 I get paid (very well) to travel the country and deal. I’ve got a life I’m happy with, and not one that sees me being a shitty person in a KZbin comments section ;)

[@LGrcnjsn9]

@@kylebrown8345 chinook winds has their own quarterly tournament series. It’s also running next week, but I won’t be there for that one

[@joyride1598]

If I'm being taxed on a tournament cash because it's $5,000 net or above, I'll tip 3% to 5%. If it's not taxed and reported to the IRS I'll tip maybe 7% tops. Same goes for promotions money.

[@ronbruh1878]

As for tipping. I was definitely shocked how little people in Vegas tip. I was playing stud 8. Pot gets split. I tip but the other player wasn't. Even when they scooped a pot the dealer was lucky to get $1. On the East Coast we're MUCH more generous! And I do see dealers leaving with racks!

[@VegasPokerNomad]

I think that's one of the factors contributing to getting paid more in tournaments than cash. If two people split a pot, it's probably going to take 4 players getting to showdown for each player winning half the pot to tip.

[@benjaminbuckley2077]

Cheers for answering the question bro 👍 decent vlog as usual keep up the good work

[@alexhickey-grant6894]

Tips on tourney opinion from a dealer. Usually there's a fee taken out for dealers in the buy in so honestly on tourneys unless it's a big win I'm likely not tipping. Also I play a LOT of poker and tip my fair share. And what I hear from cage people is that people who ship big tourneys almost never tip so there is that. For putting out blinds, on 1/2 1/3 it's chronic "Joe, your big blind" and it never ends but part of it.

[@bennybeeeee]

Every time I've chopped at Orleans I've watched every player tip. I always do 1%. 10,400 = 104 maybe that makes me a cheapskate but those final tables don't happen often enough. I make up for it in cash games, post-covid I tip 2 when I used to tip 1. More if if the total pot is over 200. If I get $300 for a high hand I chuck em a green

[@alexhickey-grant6894]

@@bennybeeeee absolutely for $300 $25 is a nice tip. I don't think it makes you a cheapskate. I shipped a 10k pot to a well known pro and got $0 that's a cheapskate. Up here our tourney rake is also disgusting so maybe that's why people don't tip much on tourney wins. Cheers benny!

[@user-qu6pg1mc2n]

I heard the standard was always 3% tip for tournaments, but that was before casinos started doing an auto gratuity. Now some places take a tip from the buy in, or do an add on that it 100% going to the dealers, so it is confusing. It’s like if a restaurant takes 18% auto gratuity, you can tip more but are not expected to.

[@bennybeeeee]

No pro or serious player will tip 3% of a final table payout, they do not happen often enough. The generally recognized consensus is 1%. That varies like everything else, but almost all serious players will tell you 1%. 300k = 3k tip

[@bennybeeeee]

Standard most common tourney tip in usa is 1% from min cash all the way to 1st

[@imp0rtt]

I find that hard to belive rhat itsbrare to break 150 at wynn dealing poker. Thats crazy if itsbtrue

[@TakePoker]

Vegas and especially Wynn are hotspots for "euro" pros who notoriously don't tip. Higher stakes public games in 2024 consist of: USA pros (who usually tip a small, flat rate), foreign pros (who usually tip little to nothing), and a whale or two getting roasted for piles. I recently heard that a certain big East coast room does everything they can to not open their bigger NL game every day, because no one wants to deal it. The dealers make way more dealing any random 1/3nl table.

[@bennybeeeee]

That big east coast room has got the right idea. Punish them, I like it

[@yavinebrewer1393]

2-5% tip if you have all of yourself

[@WizDrW]

I have a question maybe for the next Q&A series traveling poker fella, now that the series is over will you keep trimming or grow back the beard? I think I may know the answer already though

[@VegasPokerNomad]

I would have included the answer on camera, had I not just filmed the final Q&A video for this series last night. So I'll answer here. No trimming until at least the next job.

[@user-qu6pg1mc2n]

In tournaments you can get some really good dealers and some that don’t care or will sit and complain that they have to deal tournaments and talk to the table about how much more they make dealing cash. Then when you tip it’s eventually distributed. Kind of sucks that you can’t reward hard work, and if you have a number of dealers who openly complain about dealing tournaments or are just not paying attention and messing around because they don’t like dealing tournaments it kind of kills the desire to want to tip well.

[@VegasPokerNomad]

I never liked the pooled tip concept.

[@sugarraypoker]

Herbs and Rye still in the Main Event as of 2 p.m. pacific today. He as 650k in chips.

[@VegasPokerNomad]

Yeah. Finished top 300.

[@777BrokeDegen]

I was literally gonna stay 5% on the service or the people

[@loydbridges6214]

First!!!

[@brad2109]

Comment for the algorithm

[@mully107]

Dealers hope for 5% of the prizepool in MTTs. We dont excpect it but thats the hope. 😊

[@VegasPokerNomad]

In wage? Guarantees? Tips?

[@mully107]

@@VegasPokerNomad tips

[@fredmiller9190]

If rice is a spoon food, why don’t Asians use spoons? Asking for a friend….

[@VegasPokerNomad]

I don't think they were going for convenience with eating. They were with farming though. They used shovels to plow, not pool cues. (Seinfeld standup paraphrased.)

[@garym6206]

You hate on the Wynn, no idea why it’s the absolute best room (possibly in the world)

[@VegasPokerNomad]

Best for whom? I'm repeating things dealers at Wynn told me. I'd call that truth, not hate.

[@joshmorrow9872]

If you win $60k youre not tipping $3k maybe id tip $400 to $500 on a $50 to $60k win. As for $100 and win $1100 i would only tip $20 because we only cash one in four tournaments.

[@VegasPokerNomad]

I think Bart Hanson mentioned that once. No one tips on losses. No one gets refunds on losses. So why tip enormous amounts on wins?

[@joshmorrow9872]

@@VegasPokerNomad exactly gotta account for your losses thats why you can't tip that much.

[@Watcher2885]

Still waiting for me Q to be A’ed

[@VegasPokerNomad]

Just checked the poll comments. I don't see a comment from you.

[@apocalypsepromotions7676]

Why are players cheapskates at higher stakes cash games when it comes to tipping?

[@WulfTrax]

People who are focused on money, or see the amount you have as a status symbol, don't tip as often because they want to keep as much for themselves as possible. Simple as that, really.

[@VegasPokerNomad]

Sometimes they pretip. This happens in the high stakes mixed game in Borgata. A dealer gets $25 before the first hand. That's cool, but not common.

[@jeffreyquizon509]

first time i dealt a 10/25 game, was excited to see how much you could come back in tips. But just like the rest of the room, it's just luck on who you push the pot to and if they're generous tipper. I was pushing a dealer who pushed a 10k pot in that game and was tipped $2. Sometimes you can get a better tips per down dealing at the 4-8, 6-12 limits

[@bennybeeeee]

Tipping reduces their hourly. They want to look down at poker tracker and see the largest hourly rate that they possibly can, for more than one reason. They can use their results to sell themselves. Problem is that they themselves create a conundrum, good efficient dealers leave and slower lost-in-space dealers with no basic math skills take their place. Thus the game is slowed and hourly takes a dive

[@itsHughJanisManus]

Hearing on good authority that you are a bad tipper, is experiencing dealing for a living going to effect your tipping habits going forward?

[@fkscopes]

He's a grinder barely getting by you are going to try and shame him for small tipping?

[@VegasPokerNomad]

Generous tipping is awful for customers. Poor and average employees have no reason to quit or improve. I'll continue to tip appropriately. -- And for the future, making things up or talking to people who hate me isn't "on good authority."

[@itsHughJanisManus]

@VegasPokerNomad I'm sure the people who deal to you at ballys are neither of those things buddy. Thanks for showing your true colors.

[@itsHughJanisManus]

@fkscopes cash dealers make a living off tips, I was just seeing if he would change his perspective to a 1$ on a pushed pot from 1$ on 200+ pots. If we're really talking about edging points, why does he consistently play at the rooms with the highest rake+promo drop?

[@fkscopes]

@@itsHughJanisManus and he was making a living off poker and making less than the dealers. Someone who's making $15 per hour needs to give more of their money to someone making $30+?