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Originally Posted by Synergistic Explosions
They raised the rake to such a high level no players with an understanding of this will play there, especially without rakeback. This is a big reason the site is dying and will continue to bleed players.
This wasn't really what I was asking about. The rake at the micros is pretty obscene, when you stack someone at nl10 your stack is 18.8 or something, that's 12 BB. At midstakes it'll be .4-.8 bb, which is still gigantic but beatable.
Merge used to have great custom games and high stakes actually ran, even as high as 50/100. You could make about any game at any stake.
I understand the network is smaller and sketchier these days. But having the absolute cap for games at 3/6 just feels dumb. The higher tables don't even exist! I think at the very least there would be action at 5/10 a few times a week. 3/6 nl is running 2 tables in normal hours, sometimes 4 at peak times.
Re the rake, my argument was they could bump the rake caps up for 5/10 so it is profitable for them to run, instead of channeling all action lower. Tournament winners are looking for ways to blow their 5k-20k scores and that's a lot easier at 5/10.
So does anyone know why A) No 5/10? B) No custom tables?