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The Rake on SkyPoker should be reduced
TommyD
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Time and again on this forum, players, many of them long standing and exceptionally loyal to this site, make reasonable requests and enquiries about the software and its various faults. For years each one has been 'kicked down the road' with promises of improvements which never come or shrugged at as 'nothing we can do.' Players finding workarounds to regular crashes, little features stop working and instead of being fixed we hear 'do you really need that?' and download software which sometimes can't even run off of latest third party software updates while setting off alarms on paid for anti virus software. And we all accept the line 'nothing can be done.'
Well something which can be done is rake on MTT/STTs reduced to at the most 8% and percentage rake taken from cash pots be reduced. This is better for recreational players while frankly being the right thing to do while the software is in its current state.
It boils down to this, if SkyPoker is not delivering an industry standard service they should charge less than industry standard rake.
Well something which can be done is rake on MTT/STTs reduced to at the most 8% and percentage rake taken from cash pots be reduced. This is better for recreational players while frankly being the right thing to do while the software is in its current state.
It boils down to this, if SkyPoker is not delivering an industry standard service they should charge less than industry standard rake.
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In theory, your point makes sense. Lower rake to increase usage on a lower standard of software. In practice, you would not get any more players on the site. Sky doesn't have a monopoly either - if leading software is your number one requirement, you can get the same or lower raked games elsewhere on larger platforms.
The rake has always been to high and does not even make sense. Like how can a turbo DYM be 10% and close to uneatable for other than rakeback and HUSNGs 5%
Im pretty sure the rake at lower stakes cash is extortinate but I dont play enough to know... id imagine spin ups would be unbeatable below £1/£2 / £2/£4 levels.
Some of the software glitches are whatever you get used to them but there are some genuine ones that were never fixed that genuinely can cost you money.
The final table reload glitch can cost you 1bb (does not seem like a lot) but in the turbo mains etc where you can be 5-20bb deep it is a huge amount of ev when x by the 50-100 times it may happen.
I have always been pro sky but I never understood the inability to fix things and charge a premium higher than others. But yeah dont buy into the BS that sky has the softest games around as ante games lead to people making huge mistakes by playing like a nit
That said, spin ups 1.5/3 and below are very very borderline unbeatable just by the nature of the game. For instance at .50/1 if 2 players shove their 10bb and pot is approx £20 then £1 is taken out of the pot. You have to keep shoving, and calling shoves, and with equities running so close, and that constant churn of rake, I'm not sure it's even beatable by an A+ player on his A+ game. The same goes for DYMs.
MTTs are fine. There are many many players crushing MTTs on Sky for high ROIs.
As has been suggested by various, the rake is higher than many rivals. Using Unibet as an example, the rake there is rather lower.
I think the problem is rather more important to STTs-particularly DYMs. The rake for as Sky TDYM is double that for a Sky Turbo STT. Which is odd.