The rake is $1.26, or 2.1%. Its on the high end, in $200's, for example, rake is $3.34, or 1.67%.
Just some thoughts, Emillio ran very good in card distribution lately, and I wasn't on top of my game. But he is playing so much significantly better then he was when I first played him.
That being said, I would not speculate on who has the edge now. I still believe its me, but by a small amount. Not enough to beat the rake but enough to make him lose more.
For this challenge tho, numbers vise, I am in as good of a spot as ever. He shortened the gap by ~$370 today. But, considering the volume, I am in a better spot to take this down now, then I was at the start of today.
At the start of today we were at 512 games, and I was ~$1094 away from the break even line ($1260 @ 1000 games), so I needed to lose $2.24 per game ($1.26 to rake and $0.98 to emo) to lose the challenge.
Now we are at 820 games, and I am ~$519 away from that point. Which means I now need to lose $2.88 per game.
So in general, given the volume, I still did well today
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That being said, its closer then I would like it to be, and anything can happen. Tomorrow is gonna be an epic match. I have a good feeling about it.