Tipping or

Toking the Dealer Strategy

After all, dealers aren't card-handling robots but human beings , and many of them are gamblers themselves. They realize a losing player isn't going to give them big tips.

But if a wining player stiffs them, their attitude can be downright and they can do things to really hurt the player, such as g up when the deck gets favorable, speeding up the game by dealing extraordinarily fast, thus making it uncomfortable far the player, or worse still, slowing up the game by calling over a floor man to watch the player's moves.

Dealers can sometimes spot a card counter, for some of the dealers are counters themselves, and their attitude is: Why help this jerk along when he has no interest in doing anything in return for me? It's a very human attitude, one I have no quarrel with. So treat the dealer as a human being and treat him fairly, and he may go out of his way to help you out.

My policy is to tip when certain playing or betting situations present themselves, to tell the dealer in effect, "Look, this is an important hand for me, and I want you to be partners with me at this time so that together we can win some money. Therefore, if you can give me any help, I'd appreciate it, and it will benefit not only me but you as well."

The general public

a deck and reshuffle

a wining player stiffs