[Shandrax]

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This article poorly explains the rake system in online poker. He fails to mention that rake cap keeps the rake from passing a certain amount, and the higher the stakes, the weaker the rake would be.

He also fails to notice the highest stakes where you can play with $20 in front of you comfortably is five cent/ten cent -- and the highest possible rake for that game at Ultimate Bet is TEN CENTS!

If the writer wanted to bash poker he should have refered to the rake in the lowest stakes B & M games. I hear PROS saying that they can't beat that rake.

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That's not the point. Even with a rake of 0.00001% the overall amount of cash on the table would be reduced if people do nothing but shuffling chips back and forth. If you do that forever the bank will indeed end up with all the money. It will only take much longer.

The point is that you don't shuffle chips back and forth forever, because as soon as the bad players run out of money the game will end. At this moment the good players with an endge will walk away with profit. Sure, they all come back eventually, but only if they find new bad players to beat.

The long-term problem with poker is that the losing player gets nothing but frustration in return for his effort. If you go to a mall and buy something they lift you for your money also because they sell you some crap that's worth less than you are paying for it. Still you have something that you can take home and you will even be happy. In poker if you are losing you take nothing home but anger. It shouldn't take these people long to realise that poker isn't "worth" it for them - who wants to pay for frustration?

Sooner or later the good players should run out of victims. The good news is that the number of idiots on earth is virtually unlimited, so there should always be some sucker around. All you need to do is to tell them that "everyone" can win and show some more of these Moneymaker-adds. The bigger the idiot who wins, the better it is for the industry.