You can get away with almost anything if you are smart about it. Poker dealers in PA do not have a key to their tip box. At the end of their shift the casino counts their tips per PA law. No off the books income for dealers in PA.
A dealer in LV would have a much easier time pulling this scam. This guy was grabbing $200/night, so a red chip from 40 pots. Forty chances to get caught stealing a night.
Of course, the article speculates that the casino will start pooling dealer tips. I hope not. I definitely tip the good dealers more than the slow, incompetent, or rude dealers.
When I used to play this was a big concern in cardrooms where the dealers carried their own trays from table to table especially when changing color out of an active pot
It's a little hard to say this, because I'm not used to it yet, but I suppose that I'm a professional poker player. I moved to Vegas intending to get a job as a poker dealer, but while waiting to get hired, I spent the days playing poker instead of dealing it, and soon found that I was able to keep the bills paid. So I've just kept on doing it. I play Hold'em exclusively, usually no-limit, and most commonly $1-2 or $1-3, with occasional forays into $2-5 territory. I play tournaments on-line once in a while, but for some reason that I haven't entirely figured out, I'm much more successful playing at casinos than on the Internet, and much better at cash games than tournaments.
You can contact me via email: it's rakewell1 at yahoo dotdotdot com.
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You can get away with almost anything if you are smart about it. Poker dealers in PA do not have a key to their tip box. At the end of their shift the casino counts their tips per PA law. No off the books income for dealers in PA.
A dealer in LV would have a much easier time pulling this scam. This guy was grabbing $200/night, so a red chip from 40 pots. Forty chances to get caught stealing a night.
Of course, the article speculates that the casino will start pooling dealer tips. I hope not. I definitely tip the good dealers more than the slow, incompetent, or rude dealers.
When I used to play this was a big concern in cardrooms where the dealers carried their own trays from table to table especially when changing color out of an active pot
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