Re: Pacific Poker increased the rake to $5.
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Probably 90% of online players have no clue of the real effect of the rake. I'm sure many of them are so desensitized to seeing $2 or $3 going up next to the dealer that they don't even think of what their share of this represents.
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People keep on saying this whenever rake increases are discussed, but in reality the transparency of the fee doesn't matter a great deal in the long run. The rake still affects the bottom line of the poor players just as much as it matters to the good players. The poor players may not notice it in their pokertracker database, but they will sure notice it when then begin to lose their weekly/monthly/whatever deposit much more quickly.
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They may or may not notice it. They'll notice they're losing faster, but they could just as easily think they're unlucky or it's rigged even more ( [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img])
I think part of the problem is that if we get the really bad players to start thinking about rake, then maybe they'll start thinking about some other things.
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