Earl Tucker was one of the frequent guests of the Hoofers Club, but was rarely seen to go into the clubs back room. The reason for this was that it would be detrimental to him self and would have given others dancers a closer look at his dancing technique. In the hard times of the depression it was hard to get a gig, specially if there were a number of people around with a similar act, so it was not good to allow your best techniques to be copied and used else where, you could not always rely on the dancers code.

He was mainly in the Hoofers Club for the gambling, he would come hot from a club or stage show with his earnings and was likely to gamble it all away on the same night. Gambling for him was a release and a way of letting off steam, he never worried that much about losing, even though he had a bad temper. He would always be able to get more money at the next gig. On a good night, he could make more with the money that was thrown at him after his act, than he got paid for the spot he had.

He was an unusual dancer and had a reputation for being rather unpredictable in character. His dancing style was very different for the time as he went a different way to most other dancers. He did not Tap dance in his act, but was able to do a Charleston Tap dance, which never or rarely was performed. He moved in such an animated way similar to some one with a boneless body with a stare that was fixed on his face through out his act.

Earl Tucker's  boneless body dance was similar to belly dancers, but he used the whole of his body to accentuate the movement. Although Tuckers "Snake Hip's" was a great unusual act he did not have the stage presence to become better known than he was. This was possibly due to his reputation for being hard and vicious off stage and had a violent temper to match.

He did how ever achieve a great stage reputation in the black theatres of Harlem, although he was no show man like Bill Robinson or Eddie Rector, who were also around at that time. Earl Tucker was also fortunate enough to have the great Duke Ellington compose a "Snake hips'" dance melody, as he became one of the regulars at Connie's Inn.