Is a timed rake really that much worse ???

[Ralph Wiggum]

Wouldn't a time rake speed up the game or at least prevent speedbumps?

Also, if you win like 2 pots per down, aren't you getting raked at least $5 anyways?

[ungarop]

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Wouldn't a time rake speed up the game or at least prevent speedbump?

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You've never played the NL games at Foxwoods then? Time is payed every time a new dealer sits down now, and invariably, it's like getting a clueless person to post a blind in a 2/4LHE game:

DEALER: "Time Please"

NIT 1: "Time? What's time?" - even though he has been playing for the last 23 dealer downs.

NIT 2: "Already? Didn't we just pay time?"

NIT 3: "Are you sure it's been 30 minutes, my watch says 3:27AM, you're 3 minutes early."

DEALER: "Sir (looking at NIT 4), could you take $5 from NIT 5's stack for time?"

NIT 4: (Looking very worried that touching NIT 5's chips is going to give him radiation poisoning) "Uh, I don't touch other people's chips."

Repeat every 30 minutes

[ludacris]

yeah where I play rake is done after dealer deals the flop and the players are thinking so it doesn't slow it down more than a couple seconds on some hands. I could see where the timed rake would be a hassle with players that are a little clueless.

[SplawnDarts]

The really stupid part is that the nits all know better. They've all played 100s if not 1000s of downs, and know damn well what to do.

[redfisher]

Time rake might be OK if the dealers carried there racks, but at Harrah's NO they can F around for 5 minutes if the rack count is off or they're just incompetent. I don't mind waiting in a rake/hand game, but I don't like paying a buck for the house to slow the game down.