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Let me put it to you like this.

You are sitting at a 10 person table with 1 really bad player. This is fairly rare because usually there is more than 1 bad player but in this case lets say 1. The rake is at most 10%. On most sites it is half that or less but lets say 10%. One bad player who is gonna end up losing their money = 10% of the money going in on the table. Actually because they are bad they will put in more than their share but for arguments sake say exactly 10%.

So we have a 10% rake with a player at the table who will end up losing their money. They are putting in 10% of the money at the table. How can you say one bad player at the table does not pay for the rake?

The reality is that the rake is gonna be 5% not 10%. And there will be at leat 2 bad players at the table that are destined to loose their money. How is it that only 1 of the people that are left are going to be able to make money? Please, dont talk about bell curves and such, answer my question. The 10% is a myth that is created to make people that win feel like they are superior to 90% and people that lose feel like hey at least no one wins.

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What? Are you serious man?

10% rake means 10% is taken out of every POT.

That there's 1 fish at a full ring table who's destined to lose his buy-in means 10% of total buy-ins at the table is guaranteed to go to the other nine players and rake, assuming nobody rebuys.

total buy-ins != total pots (between the fish starts playing and loses his last chip).

Hello?