Stop tipping poker dealers.
The Issue
We believe compensation of poker dealers should be the sole responsibility of casinos that employ them, and that burden should not be shifted from the casinos to the players.
Why?
1. Players are casino's customers and are already paying significant money to the casino in the form of rake or time. Rake or time paid by players is more than enough to cover all of casino's expenses including providing reasonable wages to poker dealers and still make a handsome profit. This can be easily seen by presence of hourly "comps" paid by the casino to players. Comps can be as high as $2/hour per player and sometimes even higher during off-peak hours. That shows casino's collecting more than enough revenue to be able to pay dealers reasonable wages they can live on.
2. Casinos are generally owned by multi-millionaires and often multi-billionares. Those wealthy people are in a perfect position to pay their employees livable wages and not attempt to shift their payroll expenses to their customers - the players who are overwhelmingly middle or lower class in terms of their economic means.
3. It's customary to tip a dealer when a poker player wins a pot. In reality, the dealer had absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of the hand and the player winning the pot.
4. $1/pot doesn't seem like much but even for casual players tipping dealers can add up to very significant amounts of money over the course of a year. Amounts that can make a difference in the lives of players and their families most of whom are middle or lower class.
5. An argument can be made that without tips dealers won't be able to work because they won't make enough to make ends meet. That argument is false. Poker dealing is a low skill occupation and there's no shortage of willing workers. Without tips, market forces of supply and demand will efficiently self-regulate the workforce marketplace. If dealer's wages are not enough, casinos will be forced to increase their wages to keep them working thereby accomplishing our goal of freeing players from the burden of paying casino's employees wages.
6. The no-tipping model is proven to work and is successfully used in Australia where tipping dealers is illegal and their wages are fully paid by casinos.
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The Issue
We believe compensation of poker dealers should be the sole responsibility of casinos that employ them, and that burden should not be shifted from the casinos to the players.
Why?
1. Players are casino's customers and are already paying significant money to the casino in the form of rake or time. Rake or time paid by players is more than enough to cover all of casino's expenses including providing reasonable wages to poker dealers and still make a handsome profit. This can be easily seen by presence of hourly "comps" paid by the casino to players. Comps can be as high as $2/hour per player and sometimes even higher during off-peak hours. That shows casino's collecting more than enough revenue to be able to pay dealers reasonable wages they can live on.
2. Casinos are generally owned by multi-millionaires and often multi-billionares. Those wealthy people are in a perfect position to pay their employees livable wages and not attempt to shift their payroll expenses to their customers - the players who are overwhelmingly middle or lower class in terms of their economic means.
3. It's customary to tip a dealer when a poker player wins a pot. In reality, the dealer had absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of the hand and the player winning the pot.
4. $1/pot doesn't seem like much but even for casual players tipping dealers can add up to very significant amounts of money over the course of a year. Amounts that can make a difference in the lives of players and their families most of whom are middle or lower class.
5. An argument can be made that without tips dealers won't be able to work because they won't make enough to make ends meet. That argument is false. Poker dealing is a low skill occupation and there's no shortage of willing workers. Without tips, market forces of supply and demand will efficiently self-regulate the workforce marketplace. If dealer's wages are not enough, casinos will be forced to increase their wages to keep them working thereby accomplishing our goal of freeing players from the burden of paying casino's employees wages.
6. The no-tipping model is proven to work and is successfully used in Australia where tipping dealers is illegal and their wages are fully paid by casinos.
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Petition created on August 1, 2014