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Originally Posted by ajikavix
I think there are two examples of rake (upfront vs total pot amount) and might not be equal. Because before you enter each pot in a cash game, the amount of players that will invest into the pot is not set, compared to say a 5 player SNG that doesn't start until the 5 seats are filled — and rake is established upfront.
Say for example a 6max cash game.
And let's say in this cash game you enter the pot as the second player, and there is still 4 players behind you to act, — the pot amount which the dealer will be deducting the 5% rake from is not set when you entered the pot — compared to the 5 player SNG.
So 50k rake divided by 5 players = 10k, that each player paid in rake upfront, which = 25% — this might be different to say a cash game where rake deduction depends on how many players enter the pot after you.
Does this make any sense?
yeah it does and it's something i didn't think about so thanks for sharing. I personally like the calculation done as a whole and not from the buy in amount. i'll attempt to reason why. if i have two apples and i gain two more, than one way to look at this is to say i have made 100% gains. The problem with this way is if i then lost two apples i wouldn't say i lost 100%. You'd say i lost 50% of my apples.
if you always make your calculations done as a whole then you won't have these drastically differing percentage changes that can mess around with your perception. You would simply have 50% gains when the two apples are added and 50% losses when the two are taken away. Much more neat and gives you a better idea of correct magnitude and proportion.