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Originally Posted by Singasong2222
Why is it poker sites need charge so much rake when they basically same as Facebook poker surely the cost of running rake free and non rake free are not different ?
Sites have to pay an absolute fortune for licensing fees and taxes in regulated markets. The costs run into millions of dollars
per country that is licensed. (This is why some sites service a very small number of countries. It's not worth paying for a licence to serve Ireland, for example, if you can't attract enough players from that country to cover the license fee. Similarly, many sites have no French outpost, because the French authorities want the player pool to be segregated and with very high taxes.)
FWIW, I completely agree that PLO is raked too highly. I think it probably should be raked at roughly half the rate that NLH is, but sites arbitrarily decided to treat both games the same several years ago... and found their customers were often too stupid to notice or care that hardly anyone wins at Omaha.
Last edited by ArtyMcFly; 05-14-2017 at 04:22 PM.