Joe, I have no clue how to link this, Chip Inflation
When talking about Rake, I agree ist way too low on Ring tables… a standard SnG is 10% rake, most MTTs are about the same… Then we look @ Ring… so if you are paying .1% (not 1% or 10%) … you are paying that in only the hands you don’t fold preflop… Also that rake seems to be only what is a portion of the pre-flop betting. as the pot grows the initial rake stays the same… Unranked and others will quickly correct that if I’m wrong…
Take a 2 hr period … a SNG player might get 2 games, a MTT player 1 MTT, so thats paying 10% for 1 or 2 hrs of play… whereas a Ring player is paying that EVERY hand they try to play… if you pay 1% , and you’re playing40 hands outta 70 hands the table played in that hour, then you are paying 40x that 1%, perhaps much more than your 10% in a MTT…
Unranked also brings up “level of skill”, and while yes better players will amass larger bankrolls than average players… whats insidious is that you regularly have players sitting @ a table with a vastly different % of thier bankroll “in play” or “@ risk” … Being a bully with your chipstack, only takes knowledge of how to play from a certain advantage, not necessarilly meaning greater skill, just a bigger bankroll.
If player A sits with .0001% of thier bankroll, and another sits with 10% of thier bankroll … both players sit with the same starting chips… Thats why in a casino you can’t just see into the person next to you’s wallet… knowing how many “chips behind” a person has , or doesn’t have, can & will directly effect gameplay.
While bankroll specific limits for tables( that players can join ) should be offered, they should not be manditory becuase it too severely limits some players’s ability to even get a game going, or just go play for fun… Conversely , while increasing the Rake for Ring games is need’d , that small sinkhole for chips will not solve the inflation, nor is treating your players differently… with say those 2500 bonus each day…
Sassy_Sarah