What is the average yearly rake paid by an online player?
 

I am curious to know if anyone knows of any studies that can answer the above question and/or what your best guess may be. Below I will try to answer it for myself and welcome any opinions as a challenge to my logic.

I play about 10 hours a week at the $3-6 level on average.
This translates to about 500 hours per year. (~50 weeks x 10 hrs)

A rough average number of hands in the games I play is about 60 per hour.
The total number of hands in the year for me is then 30,000. (60 hands x 500 yearly hours)

The average pot size is about $30 I imagine. The rake taken from each pot is $1.00 (I am guessing on average). Thus the total amount of rake taken per year is $30,000 (30,000 hands per year x $1.00 avg. rake per hand).

I am one of an average of 10 players in the game, so my average contribution to the yearly rake is $3,000 ($30,000 yearly rake/ 1/10).

Again, reflecting on the above I realize that there may be some mathematical points that I am missing and I am looking forward to hearing alternative ideas.

I also think that if the above is accurate, or close to accurate, that every online player is potentially a golden nugget for each competing site!

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I'm 4 tabling the 5-10 6 max and I play for a living.
15k hands per week at an average rake of .22 per hand 50 weeks a year means they take $165,000 in rake each year.

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ROFL - thats by one person....

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You should go to the police station and file a complaint against Party for financial rape.... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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yeah its totally sick......... i actually feel like puking when i look at the numbers [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] we could all be rich and living on our own islands drinking martini and sorounded by beatiful women

oh well, i like to think we are enriching the lives of thousands of indians by bringing them out of poverty.

but it is a proven fact that the whole of partypoker running costs are actually payed for directly from DcfrThs's rake, and the rest of it is going straight into a bunch of Dikshits pocketsees.

/rant.

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yeah its totally sick......... i actually feel like puking when i look at the numbers [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] we could all be rich and living on our own islands drinking martini and sorounded by beatiful women

oh well, i like to think we are enriching the lives of thousands of indians by bringing them out of poverty.

but it is a proven fact that the whole of partypoker running costs are actually payed for directly from DcfrThs's rake, and the rest of it is going straight into a bunch of Dikshits pocketsees.

/rant.

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You could always try another site that is not so greedy such as ..... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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You could always try another site that is not so greedy such as .....

LMAO
What is the advantage of pokershare vs UB?

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lol. all these replies and no one has aswered the OP. deak, your numbers look fine to me. no, let me rephrase that. your calculations look fine. the numbers sux.

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NH, sir.