excessive drop (was: [ba-poker] Re: ba-poker Digest, Vol 32, Issue 10)

[Michael Wiesenberg <queueing(deleted the rest)>]

At 01:38 PM, Friday, 6/24/2005, Lee Jones wrote:

> [Joe Francis]
> > My strategy adjustment to the prospect of $4 coming out of every 
> > 3-6 pot is to play 8-16 and 20-40 instead.  That may seem like a 
> > facetious comment, but I actually mean it seriously.
>
> I'm sure you do, and this is probably correct.  I have difficulty 
> imagining how you'd beat such a game.  Then again, somebody wrote to 
> me via Card Player describing a Flordia Indian game where it was 10% 
> to $5 in a $2-4 game.  If that's not highway robbery...
>
> Regards, Lee

If a $3-$6 game took "only" 10%, $4 would not come out of a blind 
confrontation that saw a flop (nor $1 out of one that didn't).  Until 
a $3-$6 pot reaches $40, the rake is always over 10%.  Doesn't that 
seem more an example of highway robbery?  And, also, don't the Bay101 
and Garden City $2-$4 games also take that same $4?  I wonder what 
happens if the little blind calls and the hand is checked down to the 
end.  Does the house get the whole pot?