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Originally Posted by e1cnr
If the play is tight, did you make any money?
If you raised pre-flop, and folded back to you, how much (or any?) rake?
I did extremely well in my first session, winning over 10,000 HKD with a good run of cards. I didn't even play all that well (for example, not reraising all-in with two pair against what i believed --correctly as it turned out to be-- to be TPTK).
On my second session I did horribly all throughout and thus gave back almost all my winnings. The hands that felted me (I kept rebuying for the min 2,000 HKD) are as follows:
77 v. AA: I went all in preflop against a relatively aggressive player but he had the nuts and it held up.
QJ vs. Q6 on a QT6 flop. An EP player check-raised me after trapping another player's call behind me. I figured I was probably beat but had some backdoor draws (indeed turn card gave me flush draw) and didn't have that much left compared to the pot size. Still, it was probably a bad call.
Q8 of clubs with a raise preflop and an unusually large number of callers. Flop came 644 with two clubs. I figured I should strike preemptively since there was no way I could fold the hand anyway given the size of the pot and the outs that I seemed to have. If I could get out overcards or better kickers that may beat me on turn or river, I figured there is value in that. If I'm lucky I get called by a straight draw or a weaker flush draw or hit a Q, 8 or club to win. Got called by one player. Turn card is Q, river is 4 giving me fours full of queens. I flip over my cards delightfully and some on the crowd gasped at my luck to have hit the Queen on the turn. But something was awry. My opponent flipped pocket sixes to scoop the pot. damn. Atleast I wasn't drawing dead on the turn!
Later I shipped it all-in with a 32 of spades limped on the button; flop comes all spades and the EP player check-raises me. I'm all in and he flip a Ten-high flush. I'm drawing dead.
Still later I shipped it with KJ after having reraised a min-raiser and gotten one caller behind me for 300 HKD (it's all 25-50 NL). Flop is T77 and it's checked around. Turn card is jack. I thought I was golden. I bet 600 but the original min-raiser stares me down feigning to try to detect if I'm weak and bluff me. I took the bait. When he made a huge raise, I insta-called giving him airball. He had 97 of spades and took it down. ouch, that hurt.
Obviously, I'm not the greatest player. But the game style wasn't conducive. I don'y usually bluff and I don't have "heart". There are certain situations where I know the correct move is to raise or make a large bet but I can't get myself to pull the trigger.
Finally, to answer your question. On a typical preflop raise with nobody calling you there would be no rake since you'd only be winning 75 HKD and they don't have chips worth less than 5 HKD (which would be 5% of 100).