Ok, if you read this post and think ‘duh, what an idiot’ then a) Yegor explains things in the comments below, so I get it now, and b) gtfo, this is my blog 
Firstly I don’t play enough to get a PS VIP status over bronze, nor become ironman of FT, so I’m going to ignore that side of things for now (ok, so I’m goldstar on PS at the moment, but that wasn’t through playing zillions of hands).
ok, here’s PS’s current rate for microstakes;
NL2 – NL50
| # of Players |
Per $ in Pot |
Max Rake |
| 2-3 |
$0.05 |
$1.00 |
| 4-5 |
$0.05 |
$2.00 |
| 6-9 |
$0.05 |
$3.00 |
and here’s the equivalent from FT (they haven’t a nice & easy chart, but after a lot of clicking I got this);
NL5
| # of Players |
Rake |
Per $ in Pot |
Max Rake |
| 2-4 |
$0.01 |
$0.15 |
$1.00 |
| 5-9 |
$0.01 |
$0.15 |
$2.00 |
NL10
| # of Players |
Rake |
Per $ in Pot |
Max Rake |
| 2-4 |
$0.01 |
$0.15 |
$1.00 |
| 5-9 |
$0.01 |
$0.15 |
$2.00 |
NL25
| # of Players |
Rake |
Per $ in Pot |
Max Rake |
| 2-4 |
$0.01 |
$0.20 |
$2.00 |
| 5-9 |
$0.01 |
$0.20 |
$3.00 |
NL50
| # of Players |
Rake |
Per $ in Pot |
Max Rake |
| 2-4 |
$0.05 |
$1.00 |
$1.00 |
| 5-9 |
$0.05 |
$1.00 |
$3.00 |
I tried to think what the average pot would be & failed to come up with a solid way of getting that from PT. So I just took 3 or 4 of my NL10 longest sessions from each site and exported the rake for every pot played.
For FT, avg rake/1k hands was $96
For PS, avg rake/1k hands was $51
(don’t confuse that with thinking, wait, I played 1k hands and didn’t pay $50 – remember you were only involved in 20% of those hands, and of those 20% a load probably weren’t > $1, so no rake).
If I get 27% rake back, that reduces the FT rake to $70 – still higher than PS
My sample size isn’t as big as it could be, but I’m not going to waste my entire lunchbreak crunching those numbers. Still, from both the tables and the small sample average FT seems 25-50% larger, even with rakeback.
Did I calculate anything wrong? Or should I not be so keen to dive back into FT?
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