Let me preface this by saying, I believe that rake is one of the least issues SWC has and I don't mind the increases (although I don't understand them.. last time BTC price went up, rake% went down, not up..). That being said, I believe that FL HU rake should be adjusted. For comparison, here is PokerStars 2-handed rake.



The reason for this is that fixed games have much narrower edges than their NL equivalents. For example, in FLHE, 1,5BB per 100 hands is considered a good winrate nowadays.

This becomes even more drastic when the game is split pot (FLO8, Stud8, Baducey, Badacey, etc.)

I was one of the driving forces for PokerStars changing this, so I hope you understand the argument and change it back. I have also played a whole bunch of HU Mixed against beansontoast for a challenge.

It is much easier to get full ring games running if/when starting a table and playing HU is actually beatable. With this specific change, I doubt it is.


Thanks for considering it.