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03-14-2007, 04:47 PM
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Fair rake or am I a whiny nit?
Background: Group of mostly older guys (50+) that have been playing together for 20 years. I've been playing with them for 1 year. $2/5 NL...$200 buy-in. The set up has always been each player paying $10-$20 to cover food, drinks, etc.
The game recently moved to a new location. The host rakes $5 per hand, every hand, regardless of pot size. By my estimates, the cost of hosting the game is $150-$200, so I certainly want him to be reimbursed that amount. However, the rake works out to around $600 a night. Do I keep playing, or find another game. 
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#4
03-14-2007, 08:09 PM
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Re: Fair rake or am I a whiny nit?
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If the other players don't have a problem with this rake you should offer to host the game and collect the rake for yourself. [/ QUOTE ] Actually, I'd say a game with rake this abusive is a huge favorite to be visited by the local SWAT team.
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03-14-2007, 09:21 PM
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Re: Fair rake or am I a whiny nit?
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[ QUOTE ] If the other players don't have a problem with this rake you should offer to host the game and collect the rake for yourself. [/ QUOTE ] Actually, I'd say a game with rake this abusive is a huge favorite to be visited by the local SWAT team. [/ QUOTE ] Not if its just a small group of players which amounts to a home game which was the impression I had.
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03-14-2007, 11:09 PM
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Re: Fair rake or am I a whiny nit?
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If the other players don't have a problem with this rake you should offer to host the game and collect the rake for yourself. [/ QUOTE ] Best solution by far. That rake is highway robbery.
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#8
03-14-2007, 11:23 PM
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Re: Fair rake or am I a whiny nit?
I played in a $5/10 game like that years ago (first time I'd played above $.50/1). At the end of the night I was up $43, my friend was up $38, everyone else had lost, including one guy who was stuck almost a grand. Needless to say, I did not go back.
I don't think home games should charge a rake, not just because it's illegal.
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#9
03-14-2007, 11:41 PM
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Re: Fair rake or am I a whiny nit?
Too high a rake for a game with a $200 buy in parameter. This is too much coming off the table, not a good long term game for you, play elsewhere. Perhaps you could speak to the host about upping the buy in or downgrading the rake to $3 or $4 a hand (or charging time, etc).
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#10
03-15-2007, 09:23 AM
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Re: Fair rake or am I a whiny nit?
absolutely ridiculous
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