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What's A Good Tip On $100K?

#1

Howdy

I believe there is a correlation between tipping and a generosity of nature.
I believe sharing good fortune with someone who well could use the money
enhances my experience. The pragmatic approach of "what have you done for me
lately?" suggests a disconnect to that wonderful humanistic quality we all
inherently posses called ...compassion.

Old Grumpy

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#2

So using that logic go outside and give money to a homeless person or share it with a charity.

BANDSTAND54@AOL.COM wrote:

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Howdy

I believe there is a correlation between tipping and a generosity of nature.
I believe sharing good fortune with someone who well could use the money
enhances my experience. The pragmatic approach of "what have you done for me
lately?" suggests a disconnect to that wonderful humanistic quality we all
inherently posses called ...compassion.

Old Grumpy

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#3

Steve wrote:

So using that logic go outside and give money to a homeless person or
share it with a charity.

Howdy

I believe there is a correlation between tipping and a generosity of
nature.
I believe sharing good fortune with someone who well could use the money
enhances my experience. The pragmatic approach of "what have you done
for me
lately?" suggests a disconnect to that wonderful humanistic quality we
all
inherently posses called ...compassion.

Bandstand is implying that he thinks that tipping is often, if not
usually, done out of generosity. I don't equate "following the herd"
by mindlessly tipping just because it's expected, which I believe
accounts for the motive of well over 90% of all tips, with genuine
generosity, as it seems that Jean and Brad, at least to some extent,
were motivated by.

My favorite expression of the "anti-tipping" mentality is by Steve
Buscemi in the early part of "Reservoir Dogs." I challenge anyone to
refute his arguments. As both Steves make obvious, that casino
employees need the money is a silly argument, most likely motivated by
cowardly trying to masquerade "following the herd" as generosity.
True generosity, as Steve pointed out, would seek out those who most
need it, which certainly excludes anyone who has a job in the United
States.

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#4

Howdy

I believe there is a correlation between tipping and a generosity

of nature.

I believe sharing good fortune with someone who well could use

the money

enhances my experience. The pragmatic approach of "what have you

done for me

lately?" suggests a disconnect to that wonderful humanistic

quality we all

inherently posses called ...compassion.

Old Grumpy

Grumnpo, your note resonated with me.
I always like to think my tips help
house, cloth, feed and educate the
children of working people. For me
that's a lot of satisfaction.

#5

If you tip the person who pays you on a machine is it put in to a pool to be split up like blackjack tips or does the person you give it to get to keep it? Maybe I am so cynical because they keep making it harder and harder to win on the machines

#6

I wrote:

True generosity, as Steve pointed out, would seek out those who most
need it, which certainly excludes anyone who has a job in the United
States.

I'd like to amend that a bit. Genuine generosity, since it can exist
as a motive without caring about consequences, can give without regard
to need, but "intelligent," for lack of a better word, generosity
can't.

#7

<<So using that logic go outside and give money to a homeless person or
share it with a charity>>

Brad rarely passes a homeless person without giving a dollar bill. I'm more of the give-to-the-Salvation-Army-where-aid-to-the-homeless-is-more-useful-and-efficient-and-long-lasting type. So we compromise by doing both!!! The SA always gets a check when we hit a big jackpot. (I was raised in a home where you religiously tithed - he's hard to break with early habits!!!!)

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#8

Brad rarely passes a homeless person without giving a dollar

bill. I'm

more of the
give-to-the-Salvation-Army-where-aid-to-the-homeless-is-more-useful-

and-efficient-and-long-lasting

type. So we compromise by doing both!!! The SA always gets a

check when we

hit a big jackpot. (I was raised in a home where you religiously

tithed -

he's hard to break with early habits!!!!)

And why would you want to break that habit!!!
congrats on your big win and I'm sure the many others you tip or
money you donate to those less fortunate is all part of God's/Karma's
plan. Good things happen to good people!!
congrats!
Trish

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#9

Good for you Jean. I'm a big SA fan myself, they do a good job with the money they get.

Jean Scott <queenofcomps@cox.net> wrote: <<So using that logic go outside and give money to a homeless person or
share it with a charity>>

Brad rarely passes a homeless person without giving a dollar bill. I'm
more of the
give-to-the-Salvation-Army-where-aid-to-the-homeless-is-more-useful-and-efficient-and-long-lasting
type. So we compromise by doing both!!! The SA always gets a check when we
hit a big jackpot. (I was raised in a home where you religiously tithed -
he's hard to break with early habits!!!!)

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________________
Jean $¢ott
The much-expanded new edition of my tax book,
including a new chapter on poker, is now available
to order at my Web site, http://queenofcomps.com/.

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#10

Jean Scott wrote:
Brad rarely passes a homeless person without giving a dollar bill.

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  I do the same, but with the caveat the money must be used to buy beer. Nothing like getting a good chuckle from some of the street cretins.....
   
  Jigger
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  "BEER: It's not just for breakfast anymore."

  "If life deals you lemons, make lemonade;
if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys."

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#11

congrats on your big win and I'm sure the many others you tip or
money you donate to those less fortunate is all part of

God's/Karma's

plan. Good things happen to good people!!
congrats!
Trish

I appreciate this comment because of its relevance to the issue.

Players invoke "karma" as a correlation between personal selfless
action and success in life. I like to think that way too. Hopefully,
if you do good things they will come back to you. Life seems a bit
unfair without karma.

But the initial scenario for my post was about hitting a $100K
jackpot and how much, if any, to tip. Obviously, you'll get all sorts
of casino and passerby lookie-loos who walk over when the lights are
flashing and bells are ringing. Specifically, some casino employees
that come your way might only be there because they think you'll be
all giddy and happy enough to "to throw a little something their
way". And since their motives are sinister and not selfless,
might "karma" influence you NOT to tip? Or maybe just be selective
about who, if anyone, gets what?

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#12

ok I did not answer this question because it just seems so out of the
relm of anything that would ever happen to me (quarter VP player :o)
that I would be unconscious if I hit 100K!!
but.....I think like Jean and Brad so much of it would be based on
where I hit it. If it was somewhere I had never gambled before or
somewhere where you know many workers there by name would make a
difference.
Definantely would be more inclined to give out more money as Jean did
when people have been friendly/helpful in the past when big money
wasn't on the line....but I would never feel comfortable tipping zero.
JMHO

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "npf15251" <npf15251@...> wrote:

But the initial scenario for my post was about hitting a $100K
jackpot and how much, if any, to tip.

#13

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Jigger Woodruff <bayfieldkent@...>
wrote:

  Jean Scott wrote:
Brad rarely passes a homeless person without giving a dollar bill.
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  I do the same, but with the caveat the money must be used to buy

beer. Nothing like getting a good chuckle from some of the street
cretins.....

   
  Jigger
  "The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in school was my blood alcohol

content."

   
  "BEER: It's not just for breakfast anymore."

  "If life deals you lemons, make lemonade;
if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys."

Finally, a rational posr on tipping, I think. So, your sitting
there with a big 3% or 4% overlay banging away and you think you can
get away with it by stiffing the service people? Maybe you can.
But why take the risk? Try buying the idiots off. A few bucks goes
a long way. So, you've never got your ass thrown off a play because
some idiot pushing a change cart gets it in for you? You are a
rookie!