Kevin made an interesting post to the comments section of a recent post: The rise in popularity is great for casinos and for slot online in general, but it's not great for the dealers! Our poker room has more than doubled in players/games/hours played in the last year but our toke rate has nearly been cut in half. To new players: you don't see it on tv or during tournaments (although it's definitely appreciated afterwards!) but you can occasionally toke the dealer. This was news to me -- I suppose it makes some sense, but I hadn't thought that the rise in poker's popularity would see the toke rate drop to the level of half what it was before. So please, poker players -- try to educate the newbies at your table on the etiquette of tipping poker dealers. Kevin makes it a good point that it's never shown or mentioned on the TV tournament broadcasts. sugar's poker tournament Apparently Sugar's men's club here in Austin has been holding a we