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I like the idea of a tiny bet in hand 1. I try to play as exploitative as possible against weak players anyway, no reason to balance so I'll just make it big with the nuts.
Don't know if its been discussed here before, but the rake seems to vary a lot at the Micros. PS takes a smaller percentage for the smallest stakes, 3.5% at PLO5 and 4.15% at PLO5 (4.5% for all higher stakes), FTP takes 1 cent/ 20 cents in the pot and Ipoker 1 cent / 15 cents in the pot. Dunno how much that has effect in practise, i.e if you take down a $.35 pot in FTP I guess they only charge 1 cent while PS would take 3.5% i.e. 1.05 cents even though the percentage is lower.
So if I calculated correctly 1 per 15 would be 6.7%, and 1 per 20 is 5%. So the rake percentage between the lowest stakes at PS (PLO2) and Ipoker (PLO4) is almost twice as high.
Rake caps:
PLO5: For PS its $1 , FTP its $2 and for Ipoker PLO4 its $1. Guess the higher cap on FTP doesn't make a difference for PLO5 as you'd need a $20 pot to cap it at the other sites and those are quite rare. For PLO25 players this could be of importance though, as FTP and Ipoker caps it at 50% higher than PS and pots over $40 should be fairly standard so without a decent rakeback deal PS would be a lot cheaper.
PLO10: PS $1.50, FTP $2, Ipoker $2
PLO25: PS $2 FTP $3, Ipoker $3 (PLO20)
For higher stakes it seemed to be capped at $3, except at PS where it is $2.50 for PLO50 $2.80 up to 3/6 and then capped at $3.
Yeah, I know - I'm quite stingy
Comparing rakes at these levels. I'm just passing through the limits, but was curious. Also FTP emailed me about a $20 bonus, I've always ignored those tiny offers but might take them up on it since I remember liking the software... Guess it only takes $50 in rake to clear it. Also PS doesn't show the hand strength and I misread the board twice today for stacks
Edit: checked that for PLO20 and above its 5% on Ipoker too, for some reason they just feel the need to rape the PLO10 and below limits with the 6.7% rake.