It's not difficult to see the anxiety a casino tipping thread releases. After all, it's a practice driven by worry, embarrassment, and the all-important but readily-deniable "intimidation factor".
In casino/hotels I tip cocktail servers, bartenders, bell hops and valet attendants--and no one else. Over the years I've had countless handpays from $400 up to $100,000, I always only accept cash, and I have never tipped anyone involved in reporting it or paying it off. Likewise, whenever I go to the cashier for a transaction, all they get is my thank you. I've played in the same places and have hit jackpots in those places many times over in front of the same smiling friendly faces, and regardless of all the tip-talking that comes my way, it doesn't rattle me one bit into handing over my money to any of them.
Why? Because I'm disciplined into not being intimidated into doing something foolish. I'm in there gambling. Will I get a tip if I lose? Of course not. So why give them anything for free when the glove's on the other hand? It makes no sense. As for the cashier, I just think about if I tip my bank tellers and it's case closed.
That thing about counting out the last hundred in twenties is tacky but I kind of like it. I feel that much better when expecting hands end up with nothing but air. The casino jackpot tipping phenomenon all begins with and ends with intimidation and embarrassment. Learn to control those and depending on how many W2G's you get every year, you can be saving from hundreds to thousands of dollars that you had been needlessly giving away.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, RWHANNU@... wrote:
> >>$5 for a $10,000 score isn't thrifty, its more insulting. You are better off not giving anything.
