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Looking at the table below, it's much more wide than that. Also many SnG types see increased rake.
The link does not work for me, because I get redirected to the swedish page. By Googling "PokerStars rake changes" I can read the following and no more:
The Fifty/50 have become very reg infested, and my winrate in them has dropped significantly. If they are also going to raise the rake, that might be the final nail in the coffin. Unless of course Daniel Negreanu is right, that "more rake is better", because it magically makes the games much softer
I think this is actually their plan to focus on highrollers only.PokerStars rake changes explained - PokerStars Learn UK
PokerStars is making changes to its rake system in certain game types and buy-in levels. Here we’ll explain what’s changing and why.
After successfully dropping freerollers, they are now going after micro players 🥲
greedy ****s .....
Thats brutal and will make most of these games close to unbeatable. Looks like I am going to have to change my game selection pretty soon
SnG volume above the $10 limit is very limited, so they make almost no money there anyway. And its not like, people are suddenly going to go "oh the rake went up, so now I better play $50 games instead of the $5 games, I used to play". To me it looks more like, they are trying to compensate for lower volume by raising their profit margin. Which is likely only going to lead to a further decrease in volume...
Yeah, some rake increases are crazy with doubling the rake or even more. 😵Thats brutal and will make most of these games close to unbeatable. Looks like I am going to have to change my game selection pretty soon
It seems like, they are also changing the limits, since a single rake often become a span of rakes. For Fifty/50 the rake for low stakes games is 4,6%, which is, what they charge for the $10 games. This now becomes 7-9%, which I guess must mean, there will now be more different limits, that are classified as low stakes? Its actually a little confusing, because today $5 is classified as low stakes, but in the table the current rake for $5 games is mentioned under "micro".
Not surprisedPokerStars rake changes explained - PokerStars Learn UK
PokerStars is making changes to its rake system in certain game types and buy-in levels. Here we’ll explain what’s changing and why.
After successfully dropping freerollers, they are now going after micro players 🥲
Basically that will make this format unbeatable below the $50 limit. So the simple message is: dont play this format on PokerStars any more.
I dont think, this forces anyone to skip 2NL, and most other sites also charge 5% rake for cash games across stakes. So as I said already, with cash games they are just bringing their prices in line with the competition. But for STT SnGs its a totally different story. There it really seems like, they want to force people to skip anything below $50 games, and obviously that is not going to happen.
Or maybe more likely Spins? Spins and Zoom cash games are great rake machines for poker sites, because the action is so fast.
They are trying to make more money...simples
In their blog post they actually mention, that the majority of their microstakes cash game players rake less than $0.50 per day and therefore get more back from the pp chests, than they pay. So apparently quite a few people already do this. But it sort of misses the point, because those of us, who actually come to play rather than for the chests, tend to pay way more than $0.50 per day in rake.
