[dozer]

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I wonder if one of us can't sue over the time-charge rake, or at least complain to the regulatory agencies about it.

I believe (correct me if I am wrong) that the rake is to be not greater than 10%/$5 max. If we can show that the $120 an hour that the propose to take is always (or at least substantially) more than 10% or $5 per hand, then maybe we can affect change on this.

That said, I wouldn't mind paying a lower hourly charge -- it's good for the speed of the game. But the more we kick it around, the more this $6 per half hour charge seems like just another way to gouge us worse than they already are.

I know that I sound like an ingrate -- after all, we ARE getting NL, and we ARE getting games resembling real poker -- but I'm gonna be bent if they continue to chop so much out of the game (as much as they can get away with, really) that it's next to impossible to beat it.

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There's no chance. Nearly every hand will have one raiser to $10-$15 and one caller. One out of every five pots or so will exceed $40, and one out of every so often of those pots will be in the $100s. Unless the table is full of braindead morons, the pots will easily exceed $1,200 in an hour. If they get in 45 hands in an hour, the avg. pot would have to be less than $26.7. Won't happen.

The reality is that this time charge is all over the country. Detroit, Indiana, etc. If we could buy in for $200 or $300, I don't think there would be an issue. It's the $100 ceiling and the $12/hr shark nipping at your heels that makes this a real problem.