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Originally Posted by psandman
In my room if they are starting a game short they will often let them start it with no rake just to get it going.
Reduced rake is usually fine. In my rooms there's a $1 drop for 5-handed and shorter. The limiting factor for a game starting is not people thinking the rake is too high but that there are very few people willing to play short. If people won't play 3 for $1, they probably won't play 3 for $0.
Giving the floor discretion as to how much to charge creates more problems than it solves. People will complain and threaten not to play unless they get the rake they want, which they know is up to the floor to give or not give.
It also creates a whole bunch of conflicts of interest, like the floor giving unraked games to the people he's banging and reduced rake to the people he likes and then refusing to reduce rake to people he dislikes so that the house won't see a drop in overall revenue.