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[boltonguy]

10NL Blitz on ACR. Not enough hands on V for HUD stats to mean anything. Going to show V's hole cards from the start.

V RFI 2BB on BN. Hero calls in BB.

Hero flops a straight and leads for 1/2 pot. V calls with the gutter, runner-runner NFD and 2 overs.

Turn pairs the board but hero fires an overbet, about 120% pot. V calls with the gutter?? V has 3% equity right now.

Of course V binks the gutter. Hero leads for pot, V jams, Her snaps and we chop, losing 5.5 BB
Dont know how this guy made it to the river ...

 

[arch3r]

If V is floating with shit like that, he won't be around for too long - just hope you are in the hand when he does not luckbox the river.

But I'm confused, why did you lose 5.5BB?

 

[boltonguy]

Rake - if you see a flop the house takes rake from the pot.

 

[JustinInMN]

Rake - if you see a flop the house takes rake from the pot.

So it looks like hero lost 3.4 BB to the rake,
Villian lost 3.5 BB to the rake,
And the SB 0.5 BB went straight down the hole for a total of 7.4BB down the hole?

That's nuts.

 

[boltonguy]

Correct!!

 

[JustinInMN]

Correct!!

That can't be beaten. I mean I realize this is probably 74 cents assuming the BB is 10 cents. But at even 50 cents a hand on average, a table with 100 dollars on it will be broke in 2-3 hours. Probably faster in an "fast fold" game.

 

[boltonguy]

I think rake is 5% capped at $3 or something. It is hard to beat this game - I'm up so far in 2022 but it is tough.

 

[JustinInMN]

I think rake is 5% capped at $3 or something. It is hard to beat this game - I'm up so far in 2022 but it is tough.

You should compare how much you are up against your share of the rake in your hand history. I'm guessing it's startling.

You are just donating to the cardroom.

 

[boltonguy]

This year i have played 25k hands and paid $161.88 in rake. I'm up $54.58. Brutal

 

[boltonguy]

That's just about 100 hours of entertainment for free though ... or 50c an hour - sweet!!

 

[boltonguy]

And here's why I do it. LJ limps. Hero in HJ raises to 4.5 BB, SB 3! to 15 BB.
LJ folds, Hero calls. This is a pretty low frequency call here I think but I am in position so we gamble.

Hero flops pretty well = front door straight flush draw. V bets 1/2 pot.
I think I have 8 NFD outs, 4 gutshot outs and maybe 3 Aces for 15 outs or 60% equity which puts me ahead of KK/QQ.
Hero raises 3x.

V jams and I snap it off. KK no spade so Hero is ahead but needs to hit an out to scoop.

** BOOM **

Rake on that hand was 13 BB ($1.30) on a 261.6 BB pot!
High entertainment value though!!

 

[Jimulacrum]

Full rake schedule NL/PL on ACR:

Obviously this massively disfavors micro-stakes. Raking a max of 30 BB from $0.05/0.10 is cruise-ship-level profiteering, even if the percent is only 5%.

Skill alone can't beat this unless you're consistently getting nothing but opponents from 2003. My impression from talking to people is that online poker is not only not that soft anymore, but is typically much tougher than live at equivalent stakes. If you're up so far this year, you've had a lot of luck on your side.

Also: I was fully expecting Villain to run out two hearts on you. That would've been lucky.

 

[boltonguy]

I have thought about moving up in stakes but honestly if I'm barely beating this game I dont think I'm good enough.
Really all I need to do is fold a little more to double my win rate but I'm not sure I can do it. Folding is hard (and boring = hat tip to RampagePoker!).

 

[Jimulacrum]

I have thought about moving up in stakes but honestly if I'm barely beating this game I dont think I'm good enough.
Really all I need to do is fold a little more to double my win rate but I'm not sure I can do it. Folding is hard (and boring = hat tip to RampagePoker!).

The house has an industrial vacuum sucking chips off the table every hand. I guarantee that's a major factor in why you're only barely eking out a win.

Moving up from $0.05/0.10 to just $0.10/0.20 would cut that rake cap in half, to 15 BB. At $0.25/0.50, it'll only be 6 BB, which at 5% isn't too bad as these things go (though still atrocious for online poker with no traditional cardroom overhead).

The big question is whether these jumps in stakes would entail a significant jump in skill. But man, the skill jump would have to be truly gargantuan to hit you harder than a doubled rake cap.