Basic Question - High Ante's No Fold'em 7Stud

[RobNottsUk]

It does make a difference, because the rake is much higher in proportion to winnings in a HU pot.

The rake is always subtracted from the pot, before it's divided amongst the winners.

Rakeback and contributory loyalty schemes, act to reduce the rake, but how they're calculated doesn't effect the proportionate rake nearly as much as the number of contributors to the pot.

Remember highly multi-way pots, means some players are in wrongly on real long shots. A solid player, is going to benefit from drawing correctly more often, and avoid investing in bad draws.

The problem is with weak made hands eg) 1 pair or something like T's up, that may be best, but are easily outdrawn. If you pay off too much, or put too much in too early without thinning the field, you get into reverse implied odds problems.

Having built up a bankroll from nothing, playing low stakes FLHE, which was advised as very difficult, my experience in practice was the opposite. These games were more profitable than the commonly advised SnG's + 10% admin fee.

The reason was, low rake caps 1/2 or 1 BB, and the low proportionate rake to winnings. Draws especially become very profitable, because against 5 or 6 players, you'ld actually play even if it was a dry pot!