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11-13-2012 , 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Shoe
Stars just bailed out every FTP player on the planet, and now you are going to complain about perfectly reasonable rake?

If you aren't happy with FTP rake then move to Stars (just like before).
No you're right. The 5% rake is perfectly reasonable, I kind of messed up with the incremental/continuous thingy. I just somehow thought that even Stars agreed that in the long term rake raping uNL is bad for the business so I was quite surprised to see that 6.66% still there. PS did already drop it down to 3.5% & 4.15% for the lowest levels. I'm not really trying to bash FT or anything (although I guess it came out like that in the OP), I'm just puzzled that's all. Like should we set up another player meeting to change something that everyone already agreed upon?

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Nits gonna nit. GTFO

Last edited by Weegs; 11-13-2012 at 10:41 PM.
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11-14-2012 , 03:39 PM
100000$ pot = 0.50$ rake
20$ pot = 1$ rake

make sense.
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11-14-2012 , 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Shoe
Nits gonna nit.

Stars just bailed out every FTP player on the planet, and now you are going to complain about perfectly reasonable rake?
GTFO
that '' argument '' tilt me like nothing else do
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11-15-2012 , 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by sixhigh
Those numbers most likely are the result of different play styles on PS and FT or simply the result of variance. Generally PokerStars rake should be noticeable lower than FT rake.

I calculated the rake for both sites (plus party and titan) by using a fixed set of 10k hands for each site and various limits. Turns out, all else being equal, PokerStars is more than 9% cheaper than FT for NL50+ players.

Those are the relative rake values for the sites and various limits in big blinds / 100 for 6 max cash games:



Obviously those numbers will differ depending on play style.

More numbers and the method used to calculate those numbers can be found in my rake comparison article.

The 9 percent difference corresponds roughly to the 10 percent difference used in my rakeback comparison which basically shows that, for players generating up to $18k rake per year, PokerStars and Full Tilt offer the same rakeback despite FT charging more rake.
This post didn't get the attention it deserved imo. Those articles are extremely informational, ty very much sixhigh!
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