Tipping
The fact that I am ending the Cover Chapter with a discussion on tipping by no means suggests that it is less important. Tipping is a personal decision, and Blackjack dealers are not well paid. But it is important to realize the cost associated with tipping. One popular method of tipping is to tip all or part of the Blackjack bonus. For example, if you have a $25 bet, the payoff for a Blackjack is $37.50. Suppose we tip the $2.50 change. Or, tip 50 cents after a $5 Blackjack. This seems like a small amount. But you are essentially changing the game from 3:2 Blackjack to 7:5 Blackjack. The chart dramatically shows the folly of such tipping. The green area is the SCORE that you give up by tipping this small change. This one small tip every 21 hands loses over half of your advantage at normal penetrations. It is quite easy to tip away your entire advantage.
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I am not saying that no one should ever tip. Just keep in mind the small edge held by a card counter, and compare that to an estimate of how much you tip an hour.
· Six decks, S17, DAS, Heads-Up, Hi-Lo, truncate, Sweet 16 and Fab 4 indexes, half-deck resolution, penetrations from 26-130 cards cutoff by the card
· With and without tipping
· Two billion rounds each, all sims use optimal betting
© 2009 Norman Wattenberger
