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I've just started getting into PLO but have quickly realized the low-stakes games are next to unbeatable because of rake. Apparently paying 2buyins/1k hands in rake is not uncommon.

An example of a site with a huge rake at the smaller stakes is PokerStars. Here you can see the players that played the most hands in the last 12 months at the 0.50/1.00$ level, which is a rather soft level with a lot of people that don't really know what they're doing.

Only 3 of these 25 regular players are winners, they altogether paid almost $8 million in rake for the 63 million hands they played. Pokerstars rake

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Does anyone play at a site that treats PLO differently?

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  • can you provide some examples? Are you talking about certain sites?# – Gaz Winter Mar 4 '13 at 11:27
  • What specific rake rates are you seeing? It has been a few years since I took a detailed look at micro stakes PLO, but I have recent students who have moved from the $5 buyin games to the $50 buyin games showing a significant net profit at each level. Usually rake is a simple fraction of the pot, and frankly most sites I have seen host tons of players who are bad enough to let a good player do significantly better than the rake rates. – Jeffrey Blake Mar 9 '13 at 6:10
  • The number of hands and rake paid are not based only on those 25 people; the above screenshot is probably totalling everyone in your DB for those numbers. If you add the rake paid for the 25 players, it's not equal to the total shown. – Cory Kendall Apr 7 '13 at 6:04
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Everything you want is listed here. According to the table, PokerStars has the lowest rake at PLO games. Not surprising for me, though.

Hope it helps.

Good luck!

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