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I'm not a fan of raking a game, especially if the underground card room owners are also playing in the games.

10% up to $3 is semi-reasonable, given the standards in casinos and such. It really depends what you're getting for that $6 or so an hour.

I'd rethink playing there, unless it's really REALLY soft. You may be able to beat it, but it will bleed the weaker players dry and the game along with it, unless there's a LARGE pool of potential players.

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the absolute limit i would consider raking off ANY pot is 1$. by the end of the night, that would probably come to a total of 80-100$, half of which would used to pay for food with the remaining 40-60$ going to pay for the trouble of keeping the game going, cleaning up, keeping track of everyones money, and generally letting 8 degens [censored] around my living room.

i really dont see why so many people find this to be such a distasteful scenario, especially when other people in our circle of players generally want a 10$ donation from everyone who shows up...