Re: [ba-poker] Story from SFGate

[sabyl55(deleted the rest)]

>At the Oaks?  The game is beatable, whether 2-4 Stud
>or 2-4 Hold'em. I have several hundreds of hours to
>prove it.  The reason is because the rake is low
>compared to the other cardrooms.  At 2-4, you paid
>$3/half hour.  The play, well... it's 2-4, you should
>be able to make around 3 bets/hr outside of the rake,
>which still leaves you making $5/hr or something.  
>
>Now it sounds like he's not beating the game, but
>that's another story entirely. 
>
>Bill  

Um, not entirely true any longer.  They now have bad beat jackpots and
that rakes another $1 out of every pot.  The 1-2 game is totally not
beatable as it costs $5/hr to play and another $1 a hand comes off the
table to the jackpot.  In the $2/4 game it costs $6/hr and $1 a hand
for the jackpot.  That means that in a full game you have $80-90/hr
coming off the table.  Buy ins range from $20-100, so if there's lets
say even $700 on the table - a good chunk still goes to the house each
hour.  And not all the jackpot is returned.  As in most card rooms
there is a large administrative cost taken out of that drop.  So it is
unclear just how beatable the very low limit games are.  Once you
reach 3-6 it does seem to become beatable and the $4-8 stud is
amazingly beatable.  But $1-2 and $2-4 is not so clearly beatable as
you make it seem.

Sabyl