Sky Poker Rake

Humphrey43

So, I play a lot of sky mainly the small stakes tournaments and I seem to get quite good results. I think sky is the best place for tournaments if you don't want to commit to 12 hour sessions. There's short late reg which I like. The bounty tournaments are very top heavy which I think is good and Imo the rake on tournaments is actually really really good. 9% rake is class for online tournaments.

However the cash games especially the micro stakes. It's crazy high like crazy crazy high, so I'm not great at cash games and I'm very aware of this. I do enjoy playing them time to time although at times it's kind of punting into the abyss.

But like is the 7.5% rake with essentially no cap at micros even beatable, I'm trying to play 100 hours (4 tabling so 1 hour = 4) at 2p/4p to see if I can actually beat it and so far 24 hours into it I'm slightly up and although I know I make a few big errors. It just seems like I'm getting raked to death. That's all I've played this week and I've got 80 points which unless I'm wrong means I've been raked roughly £13 which considering I'm essentially break even after that is mad, means I'm getting raked like 12BB/H per table. I know they're not going to change it because why would they people flood the 2/4 games every day. But it seems borderline unbeatable until at least 20nl where the rake drops and pots can actually reach the cap, even with how soft the games are.

Or am I just a huge fish in micro cash games.

Bean81

I don't know about 4nl, but 10nl here is beatable for about minimum wage over the long run. The usual micro rules apply: don't pay off the nits when they barrel, go thin for value and make sure you have preflop down.

Humphrey43

I am planning to do 100 hours of 5/10 afterwards regardless of what my result is so I'll see how a decent sample compares, but this might be because the cap can actually get reached although it wont happen often. I also think this may be because people seem to play a bit tighter preflop (not too much but a little), so less often you see and flop and pay rake. As in the 2/4 it does seem like people have an attitude of eh its only 16p. However it's defiantly partially down to me not being as good at cash games as I am tournaments, however getting raked 50p an hour in a £4 buy in game is really high.

Bean81

The rake at 4nl and 10nl is definitely high. 10nl tables are typically two very nitty regs, one whale and two passive recreational players. Its not often a flop isn't seen, with many flops going three- or four- way. Multiway flops require a lot of tightening up.

Bean81

I recommend posting some hands here and inviting feedback.

Humphrey43

Yeah that wouldn't be the worst idea