What limits are serious rakeback players playing?

I was curious as to what type of limit an average player who is looking for a rakeback generally plays at? Do most of you play 0.50/1 tables or are you guys playing at like 2/4 or 5/10+?

Good games for serious rakeback players are 6 max games $5-10 and higher.

[Daniture]

Playing 2/4 at 20% rakeback i recieve about
$1.20 per table hour.


However, rakeback should be considered more of a bonus for your play then a reason for playing at a certain level. Play the game that is the most profitable for you and just take all the rakeback as a bonus.

[Pog0]

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However, rakeback should be considered more of a bonus for your play then a reason for playing at a certain level. Play the game that is the most profitable for you and just take all the rakeback as a bonus.

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Rather than thinking how much rakeback I'm receiving, one should think in terms of how much rake am I paying. Getting x% on site A, you might be paying more rake than if you got x-n% on site B. Your "bonus" pay on site A will be higher, sure, but your overall gain will be higher on site B and your "Poker Tracker winrate" will be higher on site B.

Calculate your rake/hand, multiply by (1-rb%), see where you're best off.

[MyMindIsGoing]

Even more intresting is the sum of winrate + rakeback. One site might have high winrate but low rakeback but you might still earn more there than some other site witch the rake back is huge but the winrate is low. You should of cource play where the sum of them is the highest.

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Good games for serious rakeback players are 6 max games $5-10 and higher.

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At 5/10 a standard rakeback deal at party/skins is good for about $7/table/hour. Anything after 5/10 is really diminishing returns since the rake is capped almost every pot.

Also, does anyone find when people say that paying less rake at site x is better than having a rakeback deal at site y isn't true? At what point does it reach where this isn't true? 2/4 or 3/6 it doesn't have an effect anymore? 5% of $100 or 10% of $100 are the same when rake is capped at $3.

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Good games for serious rakeback players are 6 max games $5-10 and higher.

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At 5/10 a standard rakeback deal at party/skins is good for about $7/table/hour. Anything after 5/10 is really diminishing returns since the rake is capped almost every pot.

Also, does anyone find when people say that paying less rake at site x is better than having a rakeback deal at site y isn't true? At what point does it reach where this isn't true? 2/4 or 3/6 it doesn't have an effect anymore? 5% of $100 or 10% of $100 are the same when rake is capped at $3.

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I just play with rakeback for the extra dough. I don't see why anyone that plays more than a few thousand hands a month wouldn't.

Planning on 50% at the $50 games.

[CardSharpCook]

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At 5/10 a standard rakeback deal at party/skins is good for about $7/table/hour. Anything after 5/10 is really diminishing returns since the rake is capped almost every pot.

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You're thinking about this the wrong way. The nicer thing about the higher limits is that a lower % gets raked with each pot. Sure, it means your RB doens't grow as much with the limits.

I think every serious player has/should have a RB deal. For me, at 20/40 RB makes up about 10-20% of my profit each month. In october it was 40% [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I had a miserable month.

I understand that the lowest percent of the pot is the best. I was just stating that there isn't much difference in rakeback between 5/10 6max and 20/40 than maybe a dollar or so per hundred hands.