Making up for the rake

[Rickjohn]

What BB/100 makes up for a 5% rake?

[Aaron W.]

Depends on the limit... 5% is much harder to make up at $.5/$1 than it is at $20/40 because you hardly ever trigger a rake cap at the lower limit, but it happens every time at the higher limit.

Also, it's not BB/100 that will tilt the scale, but # pots won and the average pot size. If you win one big pot for 40BB (pre-rake), it's better than winning 10 pots at 4BB. Again, this has to do with the rake cap.

[DavidC]

0.0001/100. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

(I think PT takes rake out of your winnings before it reports it.)

What you should be looking at instead is determining how much of an equity edge you need in a hand in order to beat said rake in that hand.