What’s the correct quantity for a rich poker participant to tip a cocktail server for a bottle of water?
That’s the debate that transpired on X due to a essential tweet from Daniel Negreanu, who referred to as out an unnamed “millionaire” high-stakes professional for being a little bit of a tightwad.
Las Vegas Tipping Tradition
The tipping tradition in the USA differs vastly from Europe and different components of the phrase. That is very true in Las Vegas the place the hospitality trade guidelines the city. It’s customary in Nevada to tip 20% or generally larger for a meal or drinks, whereas tipping is not at all times anticipated in most different nations the place bartenders and servers are paid cheap hourly wages.
Totally free drinks, that are supplied in the course of the Poker Masters sequence, and all different occasions on the PokerGO Studio, most poker gamers tip $1-$2 per drink, and generally extra for an alcoholic beverage. There are exceptions as some gamers are extra beneficiant than others. Some professionals would possibly even toss the cocktail waitress a black chip ($100) if they have been working sizzling.
Negreanu’s difficulty is not with a $1-$3 participant being low cost on tipping as he particularly referred to as out an unnamed rich professional who was competing in a $10,100 buy-in Poker Masters occasion. This particular person who shall stay nameless had a $5 invoice in his hand upon receiving two bottles of Fiji water, however he apparently went into his pocket to retrieve two $1 payments to depart as a tip as a substitute of the bigger denomination invoice.
“You had an opportunity to make a distinction for a single mom working her ass off to pay the payments, however you selected the soiled $1’s.,” Negreanu wrote.
The GGPoker ambassador’s tweet was criticized by some, whereas others agreed with the take. One X consumer jokingly argued that even Allen Kessler “would have gave her $5.”
“Two free bottles of water and a $1 tip for every? Take the millionaire out of the equation and I see no difficulty. Embrace the millionaire and I nonetheless see no difficulty. Not like he stiffed her,” @j_mars57 wrote.
Doug Polk stated that he’d simply tip the $5, however “I am not a fan of tip shaming. Tipping a greenback per water is okay/customary. I do not like moving into territory the place we’re judging folks by what they tip primarily based on the stakes they play.”
Max Pescatori, a four-time World Collection of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, argues that Negreanu did not tip disgrace contemplating he by no means talked about the participant’s identify.
“Past disgusting,” Mike Matusow stated in regards to the participant Negreanu criticized.
We might prefer to know what your ideas are on the tipping difficulty.
