Star City Poker - rake issues - Sydney, Australia

[BlueBear]

Star City poker in Australia just started 4 new poker tables and it is currently under a trial stage. In a 5/10 holdem game, they charged a fixed commission of 50 cents per player before the hand starts (the resulting pot is not raked). So everybody pays 50 cents, it's like a fixed rake of $5 per hand regardless what the pot size is. (after the commision charge is paid, the game proceeds like a normal limit holdem game with blinds). On the second day of their trials, they increase their fixed commission to 75 cents per player.

The rake/commission structure is terrible but I will like to ask the posters here, what do you think?

[Al_Capone_Junior]

not only is that unplayably high, but it will slow down the game and make it proportionately even higher time wise. I wouldn't play it.

al

[Cubswin]

It sucks.... play online. Less overhead costs and more profitable for the winning player [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[BlueBear]

I love online play and play there 99.9% of the time but I occasionally love a decent B&M game, and need to make a strong stand against this excessive commission as my local casino is the only one and monopolizes the whole sydney area and players do not realize they are getting a poor deal.

[xxxxx]

Is that in Australian dollars or real money?

[timmer]

IS the beer & booze comped ?

[BlueBear]

I wish.

[italianstang]

Even if it is in Australian money (pretend money) it is still a lot proportionally

[xxxxx]

I pay four bucks a hand ($1 to the jackpot) to play $2-$4 in good old American wampom. Since A$5-10 works out to like .04-.08, $5 Australian really isn't that out of line. Of course you can't make any money at it unless you have a couple of maniacs that raise with any two cards.

[Kipu]

This seems like a VERY fish-friendly system. Since a tight player's money would only be raked on the hands he/she plays rather than every hand! A fish, who is seeing every flop, is raked every hand so they benefit from this 'averaged out' rake since they were on the high side of the average in the normal rake system. The good players are the ones making up the difference!