fair rake for a home game?

In my experience with illegal clubs, the cops give you a summuns to appear in court and then the court makes you give $200 to a charity of your choice. That is usually the way they handle it up here in Toronto. But that is for the players. The people running the place gets a bigger fine.

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In my experience with illegal clubs, the cops give you a summuns to appear in court and then the court makes you give $200 to a charity of your choice. That is usually the way they handle it up here in Toronto. But that is for the players. The people running the place gets a bigger fine.

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I think in the US, the cops can seize all money on the table, and all money on your person.

I forgot to add that all the money on the table is siezed too.

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You need a pool of 50 players to keep a game going? I live in an area of around 100,000 people and know of regular unraked games every night of the week covering virtually every limit imagineable. Make some friends and find a free game.

[Lottery Larry]

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If he wants to cover expenses, he can charge a cover... and even that is shady

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What do you mean by "shady"?

[Lottery Larry]

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if larry the frat boy is

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Hey, I'm not a fraternity brother!

[Lottery Larry]

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I think you guys are overreacting to raked home games a little.

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A raked home game isn't a home game IMHO, it's an underground card room. You say tomato, I say...

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They way I look at it is I am paying for the organization of a game and access to a very large pool of players.

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Sometimes you can find someone dumb enough to do all that for free! :P

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Putting a private game together can be a pain in the ass and you really need a pool of about 50 players to keep the game going. When players bust out you need new players to replace them. Thats pretty hard to pull off in a small home game.

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Says you.... depending on what you mean by small.

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You are also paying for the conveinece of not having to track down players and make sure there will be a game.

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Damn, maybe I should start charging for that! Too bad it's illegal in Ben Franklin Land.... ;P

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A well run raked game doesn't seem to have this problem.

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A well run non-raked game, managed by a modest saint of a host, doesn't have this problem either. :P


Now, I'm not rich and stupid, so I do have a shared expenses charge, but it's minor AND I pay mine as well (that sticky law thingy again..)

[somapopper]

I'd bet most areas of that size don't have anything going above 3/6 that is going to be easy to find unless it's in an illegal card room.

[wonkadaddy]

all the underground games in atlanta rake up to $6/hand. $1/hand is extremely fair. after drinks/pizza the guy's only go to pull-in $10-15/hour or so.