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Originally Posted by DrSayre
It appears 8% of each buy-in ($80,000) goes to One Drop, while $920,000 goes to the prize pool. I think it's easy to say that for a billionaire, that's nothing to them and wouldnt keep anybody from playing. But I dont know. It's hard for me to even consider what I would think. I think it could be reasonable for one of those guys who plays in a lot of High Rollers to decide to separate poker from their giving, deciding not to play One Drop but still being extremely charitable.
Like I said, Im 99% sure I saw Doug tweet months ago that he was playing SHRB and not One Drop because SHRB had no rake at all. Not sure if that was the only reason or not.
Doug is a lot smarter than the average bear, hence his good decision to not play in what's turned out to be an end boss pro heavy, small field.
With the rake, I assume that if this wasn't a charity related event that the rake would be nowhere near 8% as rake/commission/brokerage fees, call it what you will, scale down the higher the ticket price is, (and actual running costs for a live comp do not rise linearly with the size of the buy in)
Ship brokers earn <0.25%, real estate agents ~1.5%, hotel booking agents ~10% etc