SIX DOLLAR rake at pacific now??

[teddyFBI]

(for the 75/150 game) Is this known?? Seems just yesterday I Was reading about people griping that it had been raised to $5.

They also have a little clause in there that reads:
"* Additional rake of 1¢ will be taken for every additional 20¢ between consecutive pot sizes."

Anyone venture a guess as to what that means?

The even more prepsoterous thing is that they list in the $50/$100 rake chart for example, a minimum rake of $2, increasing with the size of the pot, but it hits the $5 max rakes at $110, so they might as well just say every pot that sees a flop gets raked the $5 max.

[bblock99]

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They also have a little clause in there that reads:
"* Additional rake of 1¢ will be taken for every additional 20¢ between consecutive pot sizes."

Anyone venture a guess as to what that means?

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Sounds like if you have a small pot followed by a big pot, they'll take more money out of the big pot...?

Pacific will keep raising the rake, and the fish will still have no idea what's going on.

[Cheeseburglar]

What draws most of these people to the smaller sites, anyways? Why don't they like playing on larger sites like Party, Stars, etc?

[Marnixvdb]

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What draws most of these people to the smaller sites, anyways? Why don't they like playing on larger sites like Party, Stars, etc?

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Some people prefer to play a smaller community: you get to know your opponents faster and better.

[Jeffmet3]

Many of the smaller sites have great incentives to play there.

If you can beat the games at Party/Stars, it might be worth it to lower your winrate by playing at a smaller site because the amount will at least be made up by a high rakeback %. That way, you don't necessarily have to win to make money.

For instance, the guy that posted an 800BB loss for the year yet made $80k

[axioma]

i would venture to guess it means the following:

if the pot is x, they rake x1.

if it is y, they rake y1.

but when the pot is somewhere between x and y, they rake x, PLUS AN ADDITIONAL $0.01 for every $0.2 that the pot is greater than x.

so basically they rake in a more continuous way, rather than the more discrete way most sites rake the pot.

[bicyclekick]

Yeah and the 10/20 rake is capped at 4 bucks...even heads up. That's even more [censored] if you ask me.

[bblock99]

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Yeah and the 10/20 rake is capped at 4 bucks...even heads up. That's even more [censored] if you ask me.

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The AVG rake at 10/20 is $3.23 PER HAND.

[good2cu]

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If you can beat the games at Party/Stars, it might be worth it to lower your winrate by playing at a smaller site because the amount will at least be made up by a high rakeback %.

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Well if the rake is 50% higher are you really making any money off rakeback?

[Reef]

what I'm guessing the clause means:
if the pot is $5, they rake $0.25
If the pot is $5.20, they rake $0.26
etc..