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Pokerstars must make a million a day.

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Low estimate, IMHO. If you want a better idea, go to the cash games on like 9:00 on a weekday for a nice average sample, and sum up (hands per hour * $/pot * .0025) (.0025 because stars is godly and rounds rake down) for all the little tables, and just $3 * hands/hour for all the big tables. Then throw in the sum of the entrants times the fee for all tournies that started that hour. This'll give you a rough idea of the hourly wage stars pays itself.

Right now, at 2:30 on a monday, stars is running a total of 226 10/20 NL hands per hour, 251 5/10 NL, 220 3/6 NL, over 300 30/60 limit, and 280 15/30. That makes a total of 1277 hands/hour for an hourly wage of $3831/hour from just the highest stakes cash games at totally off-peak hours.

I'm sure a data miner could get keep track of the rake stars takes in a full week's cycle so we could get a real nice idea.