What silenus said. 
Oh, really? And they mug when the dice are going to come up with a natural? I’d like to see that one!
Tipping at gambling is stupid, but gambling is stupid, so I guess the faster your money burns the less time you spend and the more you have of real life left.
I’m trying to figure out what they might be dealing. Sounds vaguely illegal (though no doubt fun).
Um… I’m pretty sure silenus didn’t say anything about them predicting the future or anything. But in a game like Blackjack, the deck is stacked against you, and if I have someone like the dealer willing to help me out, I’ll damn sure take it.
Plus (and I know what forum we’re in, so I’m not saying this with vitriol) your comment about gambling being “stupid” sounds like a child who calls something stupid because he can’t figure out how it works.
Then please spend your time in different threads if you don’t fancy gambling as a form of recreation.
The person running the game is still called the dealer even if there are no cards involved (although there is a form of craps which uses cards instead of dice).
I cashed in a bucket of slot machine quarters at the money counter/cashier booth, and the total was $200.75.
She passed me four 50 dollar bills, and the 3 quarters.
For no reason, I pushed the three quarters back to her. She thanked me and did the following.
She put her hands out palms down, turned them over to palms up, pulled each quarter towards her, one at a time, and dropped them in a box below the table. I asked her what that was all about, and she pointed to the camera above her.
Nobody ever trusts the help.
It sounds like a good thing.
But the optimum (which is to say “least unfavorable”) Blackjack strategy is easy to grasp and employ. Once you’re on board with that, there’s (pretty much by definition) close to nothing that the dealer can legally do to help you.
So the notion of tipping amounts to a way to turn a small disadvantage for the player into a bigger one. If it improves “karma,” that may add to the fun for some. But karma in gambling is a delusion, and not all players are likely to feel it’s fun to be deluded (or to feel forced to pretend they are).
On a $5 craps table, a $1 hardway for the dealers hardly seems like a tip worth offering.
I usually toss out a $5 chip and say “dollar each hardway for the dealers, and keep the extra dollar.”
I’ve tried several different ways to tip the dealers. Pass, Don’t, Come, Place, Hardway, C&E…none of them are as satisfying as the hardways.
Also, on rec.gambling.craps, there were several craps dealers, and when I polled them asking what method of tipping they preferred, they overwhelmingly preferred the hard ways.
Oddly, one of their least favorite tips were line bets, as the payout is only 1:1. For a similar reason they disliked being tipped straight up, as a winning tip is usually worth substantially more than the player spent giving it.
But on one table, I swear I tipped 5 times in a row without a single penny winning for them, so ever since I always make sure they get at least a guaranteed buck.