Your advice - Tipping casino dealers
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In an effort to be the best possible online resource for new dealers,
it is my desire to build a page of advice from dealers on how to make
tokes. This is going to be an unusual format. Upon completion the
reader will get their advice and advice from YOU, the players. If
anything, it will be interesting reading.
Please, if you will, give us your two cents worth on what it takes for
a casino dealer to make tips (tokes) from YOU. What YOU expect and
what is out there.
As always, your participation is what makes Dicedealer.com the nations
#1 online casino employees website.
Thank you in advance for your advice in this matter.
Scott Cameron - Dicedealer.com
The Midnight Skulker
> a casino dealer to make tips (tokes) from YOU. What YOU expect and
> what is out there.
00. Be attentive and friendly. I number this zero because if you're
inattentive (e.g. basically asleep or talking to your buddies) or worse,
antagonistic or obnoxious, you'll get zip from me. The cards, dice, and
balls are beyond your control, but your persona is not. Being pleasant
is basic service IMHO, and I even rank it above competence.
0. Be appreciative. I number this zero because if you don't acknowledge
my tokes you won't get any. I sympathize with your situation: you
depend on tokes for more than half your salary yet the pundits of the
hospitality industry never mention you when they talk about "customary
gratuities". Nevertheless, a gratuity is voluntary whether its
customary or not. You don't have to make a production out of it --
kissing of the feet is optional, even discouraged -- but if you don't
thank me I'll assume you'd rather do without.
1. Be helpful. If I'm behind two or three numbers when Dugan rolls
stack all my chips up for me after you've done your thing for the
camera. If I forget to pick up a field winner call my attention to it.
If I win a Come bet with odds ask me how much I want to leave coming and
stack that amount separately.
2. Be lenient. This one's tricky because it requires you to determine
if a player made a mistake or is taking a shot, but I think frequency is
the key. Here are some examples from actual play. The theme of all of
them is that the dealer involved is giving the player a break.
The dice are in the air when I call a $10 DC. The call is 7-out.
The dealer refused to take my $10, saying he hadn't booked the bet.
(Cactus Pete's, Jackpot, NV)
My $5 Come bet moved to 4 and I gave the dealer $15 for odds. It
was a double odds table. The 4 missed and I got a $5 refund, but I'm
quite sure that had the 4 made I would have been paid for the full
amount (and no doubt reminded that it was a double odds table.)
(Harrah's del Rio, Laughlin, NV)
I'm shooting for a point of 6 from one right. As the dice leave my
hand one of them hits the side of the bowl and stays there while the
other goes down the table. The result was 6 easy, and the stick called
it. (Flamingo, Reno, NV)
A die ricochets off the bank back towards the shooter. The stick
calls no roll, but the box overrides him and calls a hard 8. (Silver
Smith, Wendover, NV)
A player, who had been betting Pass and Come consistently, drops a
nickel on Don't Come while picking up a winning field bet. (This is
northern Nevada, where DP and DC share the same area.) The call is
7-out and it is obvious from the player's reaction that he did not
intend to make the DC bet. With no boxman present the stick called the
pit supe over and got permission to refund the losing DC bet. (Cactus
Pete's, Jackpot, NV)
I have $15 DC and $8 in the garden. The call is 3 craps. I wanted
my next field bet to be $15, but I fumbled around with the chips too
long and the dice got sent before I had my action set, so I called the
bet. Meanwhile I had forgotten all about my winning DC bet and so had
$30 sitting there instead of the $15 I really wanted. The next call was
7-out and the dealer took only $15 of my DC bet, saying, "I presume that
is what you meant to bet." (Nevada Crossing before they sold their
casino to Peppermill, Wendover, NV)
I and another player both claim a single $10 Come bet that is
moving to 4. The other player offers as evidence the lack of red in his
rack, claiming he used his last nickels to make the bet. As I was about
to concede the argument the dealer said, "Don't worry about it," and set
up two Come bets, the second from his working stack. (Cactus Pete's,
Jackpot, NV)
(This one probably belongs in No. 1, but it impressed me enough to
put it here.) The ex-stickman is on his way to bump second base. As he
passes by me he picks a nickel off the floor and hands it to me, saying,
"You dropped this, Sir." (Harrah's del Rio, Laughlin, NV)
3. Be generous. Once in a blue moon an opportunity to make a deliberate
"mistake" in my favor presents itself. I don't expect you to do this,
and I definitely do not expect you to jeopardize your job, but you can
make a lot of points with me if you do. The only time a dealer did this
for me was when I had $15 flat with $15 odds on 10, the shooter was on
the other end, and the dice sprayed my bet all over the table. When the
dealer reset the target he set it up as $10 flat with $20 odds. I tried
to correct him, but he said, "Don't worry about it." (My bet fell to a
comeout 7, but I still came out $5 better than I should have.)
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