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. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

(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.