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Originally Posted by MikeStarr
No professional player would play in that game unless he was insane
I wish people who never played poker outside of North America would stay out of discussions about games they know nothing about.
5% rake up to 10BB is high but not uncommon (especially in 1/2 games) in Europe.
That game is certainly beatable as soon as players start to rebuy for 200-300BB each time, if said players are as bad as you describe them. 10BB rake isn't too bad if you have a couple 1000BB pots every hour.
In a perfect world, you would only join the game when the stacks are already that deep. That way you save yourself from folding 95% of hands and other players disliking you for that. If you can't do that, just sit around and wait for JJ+/AK and get that all in preflop.
Nobody can tell you what a good winrate is without knowing how much the bad players lose. If 1000BB get raked over the course of a night, and 7 terrible players lose an average of 300BB, there's over 1000BB to be distributed among all other players.