[jsbjoe]

NO online game has an extremely low rate. The profit margin that online poker sites realize for providing an online "table" is mind boggling.

Eventually, a site will come along that has excellent software/support and lower rates. Unfortunately, the U.S. legislation has substantially delayed this occurrence.

Until then, poker players are stuck with the status quo. While a SNG boycott just might work, if properly organized, look at this issue from the site's perspective. They have to be concerned that the issue of lower rake will not end with SNG's, and therefore they may not cave in even with respect to SNG's.

In any event, the bottom line is that online poker should not be nearly as expensive as it is. But the same could be said of poker elsewhere. I am playing in a game in Paris atm which charges $50 an hour ! The stakes are high enough that some money can be made, but I really don't see how anyone can play in their low limit games, which cost maybe $25/hr. for low stakes.

A year or two ago the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles raised their time collections $1/hr. across the board, even though they were realizing fabulous profits as things were.

As a group, poker players are too poorly organized to do anything about the price gouging we are all subjected to.