What is the best way to calculate the effect rake has on your winrate.

[Feike]

With all the different methods of calculating rake, I was wondering what method was the "pure" method of calculating the effect of rake if no rake-back existed.

So I thought of a method, but I haven't seen this method around, so I must be taking a wrong turn somewhere.

This is what I was thinking:
- Rake only impacts me if I win a pot
- if I get the full pot, I lose 100% of the rake paid on this pot
- if I get x% of the pot (losing a main pot and winning a side pot for example) I roughly lose x% of the rake paid.

Would this be a good way to calculate the impact of rake on your winrate?

(with this method I calculated I lose about 3.6PTBB per 100 hands, small sample size though, 11K)

Any thoughts?

[gregorio]

pokertracker calculates the rake you paid. Over my last 4,000 hands I won $211.43 and paid $135.53 in rake. If I look at all the hand that I've played, there is a total of $971 in rake, so the $135 refers only to the rake that has come out of pots I have won.

[excession]

At 6 max NL on sites with the standard policies of no flop no drop, $3 cap and 5% rake, the effect of rake works out at (approximately)

3.6PTBB/100 at $100 NL
2.5PTBB/100 at $200 NL and
1.6 PTBB/100 at $400 NL