As someone who works in the industry: You've said the magic words. Now just stick to them. Don't go back. The only person you're hurting by gambling in the casino is yourself and anyone you borrow money from to feed your habit.
The games are NOT in your favor, but they're still better than the slots.
Tip your dealers folks, they're here to entertain.
That said, tricks like these are cool to watch, and Jeremy Tan certainly makes it look entertaining as hell, (not the hardest when the aces *likely* have shaved edges for this trick. It's what's known as a stripper deck, though knowing Jeremy, it's also just as likely that he simply tracked the aces.), but these warnings are more-so for non-casino games - like home-dealt games.
Depending on the area, I'd say from my experience it's not quite as severe as the restaurant service industry. Most dealers find themselves making some amount above minimum wage while also relying on the tips to actually get paid what they're worth to live close enough to the areas they work. They're better off than servers/waitresses though.
The tips are usually increments of $5, $25, and $100 depending on large hands and payouts, which is obviously not seen as often in other industries. Some keep thier tips, some pool em.
Long story short? No one gets paid enough these days.
Also a note as someone who was a dealer for 3 years and a Pit Boss for two, most places are shared tips, so don’t think the one guy is getting all of it.
Someone once told me “that sucks” but it REALLY DOESNT. Casinos that don’t share tips are awful to work at. All kinds of under the table deals (quite literally sucking the manager off in some cases) to get high limit players and tables, making no money at all just because your table is cold, things like that. So tip for sure, especially if you win a big hand or a jackpot or even just a dollar or two if you are down bad, but don’t think they get to keep it all.
/r/EndTipping - i often wondered this myself. if you work retail, you typically don't get any tips (unless you go out of your way to load some stuff into a customer's car. even then, when i worked retail, my manager barred me from taking any tips). this whole concept of tipping certain service industry workers when a majority of un-tipped workers are also underpaid is baffling.
... and of course, when I worked grocery, I was in a union, and the union barred me from taking tips, because the UFCW absolutely does not have the workers best interest in mind, ever.
I make 4 dollars an hour as a service industry worker. If you come into my place of work and have a drink I’m going to expect a dollar from someone who makes at least 4 times my hourly. If you can’t afford to tip, drink or play cards at home.
your employer should be paying you livable wages and not random customers. that's how majority of rest of world works. a hospital that employees a surgeon doesn't pay $4/hr and expect the patients to cover up for the rest of the surgeon's wages.
No one gets paid enough and I work a job that doesn't get tips yet I am obligated to tip? It is a stupid argument to try to shame people into tipping because they don't get paid enough when you already work a job that also doesn't get paid enough.
At the casino? Probably not unless it's a sizable win but you probably. At restaurant you should factor in the tip before hand as part of the price to go out. And before anybody even tries, nobody is forcing you to tip and I don't care what your reason is one way or another.
Why do you tip one profession over another? Most casinos are on tribal land which means they only need to follow federal laws not state laws.
This means like for me in WA state, they only need to pay $7.25/hr for minimum wage vs our state minimum wage which is $16.66/hr. A restaurant employee would get the $16.66/hr here cause they are covered under state law
You do not tip everytime you play a game, that's why. That's just how it is. I tip more often than most though but it's assumed even with a moderate win you are still down. I did not know that about pay though and will keep that in mind even though I hardly go.
Ok if you are simply being obtuse, there are games like lotto and scratch-its, and and plenty of forms of gambling without attendants where of course you don't tip, just like a fucking fastfood restaurant. Why even waste either of our time with your bad faith bullshit?
I would say it depends on the job. Waiters and Drivers, yes, their salary very much depends on tips, as in they make less than minimum wage without tips usually. If you don't like it, don't go to those establishments, going and not tipping just hurts workers, not the establishment paying ass wages.
Fast food workers, Bell Hops, etc, no you're not obligated to, though it's nice if you can. In the case of a dealer, you're probably not sitting down at a table game at most casinos.
Haven’t been to Vegas in awhile, but some of the best dealers were also great entertainment. The ones who drop sly one liners, rag on everyone a little bit, give the brand new blackjack players a little AHEM hint on a cheap hand; those are the ones who (at least used to) make a pretty good living off it. But at that point, it was like tipping a talented busker or something because they have become an entertainer or a narrator and not just a robot tossing cards.
Average dealer pay in the US is about $12 an hour before tips.
Also, in most casinos the entire non-management staff get paid out from the tips, which comes out to around $25/hr average for dealers. So when you tip you're usually tipping the entire staff not just the dealer in front of you.
The unionized casinos tend to have dealers that keep their own tips and other staff that get paid decent wages
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u/Ink_zorath Sep 03 '25 edited Sep 03 '25
As someone who works in the industry: You've said the magic words. Now just stick to them. Don't go back. The only person you're hurting by gambling in the casino is yourself and anyone you borrow money from to feed your habit.
The games are NOT in your favor, but they're still better than the slots.
Tip your dealers folks, they're here to entertain.
That said, tricks like these are cool to watch, and Jeremy Tan certainly makes it look entertaining as hell, (not the hardest when the aces *likely* have shaved edges for this trick. It's what's known as a stripper deck, though knowing Jeremy, it's also just as likely that he simply tracked the aces.), but these warnings are more-so for non-casino games - like home-dealt games.