I can actually amend the time frame as I found some hands today from 11/11 that were over raked.
(Previously I only had proof this was happening as early as 11/14)
Hi, could you please give me some more proofs/statements about this.
It's quite interesting because rake is usually set as % and I'm curious how they overraked over 600K hands. Is it because of their huge RB promos?
Hi sure,
First of all there are two variables that will affect how much rake is taken in a cash game:
Percentage and Cap.
The percentage is determined before the hand and based on the number of players dealt in as well as the stakes (size of the blinds).
The Cap is the maximum amount that may be taken from any pot, no matter what the size is. It's also determined by number of players and stakes, but only affects hands where the pot is large enough that the percentage is greater than the cap.
In lower stakes games, the percentage is a much bigger factor on total rake than cap.
As you increase the stakes, the cap will influence the total rake more and more, to the point where it's really the only thing that matters (example: 25/50 NL, 2.5% rake with a cap of 2. They will just be taking 2 every time a flop is dealt.)
I should also mention, only hands that see a flop are raked. "No flop, no drop"
Betcoin used to advertise a very low rake structure. You can see what it used to be
HERESometime on or before November 11th, something happened which cause the
cap to increase significantly. On November 14th, it was brought to Betcoins attention, you can see the post for yourself
HERE . They did nothing about it until December 9th. Their solution was to increase the cap all around, and remove it completely from HU tables (without any warning or effort to notify after).
This is how XiaoXiao summed all of that up, btw:
The rake did go higher briefly but was corrected.
Examples:
- Heads up tables which should of had a cap of 1 chip were having up to 5 chips taken. Every pot that was over 40 chips were being over-raked.
- Tables with 5+ players that should of had a cap of 2 chips were being capped at 6 chips instead. The winner of every pot over 80 chips
This
This hand history text is from
November 11th and the screen shot is from
December 9th, over 4 weeks later. They both had 6 chips taken, only 2 should have been.
Winning Poker Network Game #10045514: No Limit Holdem ($0.50/$1) [2015/11/11 15:03:19 UTC]
Table: Stockholm
Seats: 6
Seat 1: Uphillbean ($43.02)
Seat 3: jawhartn ($68.15)
Seat 4: SunSeeker ($177.83)
Seat 5: OHYEAH ($146.66)
Seat 6: ungod ($100)
Button is seat 5
ungod: posts small blind $0.50
Uphillbean: posts big blind $1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
OHYEAH: dealt [9c Ac]
jawhartn: folds
SunSeeker: raises $3
OHYEAH: raises $14
ungod: folds
Uphillbean: folds
SunSeeker: raises $23
OHYEAH: calls $12
*** FLOP *** [Tc Ts 2c]
SunSeeker: bets $51
OHYEAH: raises all-in $120.66
SunSeeker: calls $69.66
*** TURN *** [Tc Ts 2c] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [Tc Ts 2c] [Qh] [6d]
*** SUMMARY ***
Pot: $288.81 | Rake: $6 | BBJ: $0.01 |
Board: [Tc Ts 2c Qh 6d]
Seat 1: Uphillbean lost -$1
Seat 3: jawhartn didn't bet
Seat 4: SunSeeker won $288.81 (+$142.15) [Js Jd] Two Pair, Jacks and Tens
Seat 5: OHYEAH lost -$146.66 [9c Ac] One Pair, Tens
Seat 6: ungod lost -$0.50
I believe a significant ammount of Betcoin was taken by Betcoin from these mid stakes, non HU cash games. I think much much more was taken from the heads up tables.
This Screen Shot is also from December 9th, a high stakes HU match which should have had it's rake capped at 1 chip per hand (any time they saw a flop, the cap was met).
Instead Betcoin was taking 5 chips, 4 EXTRA chips EVERY flop...for FOUR WEEKS. HU games can easily get in 100+ hands an hour and see flops 75% of the time or more...
Xiao claims:
during the period of which it went higher, Betcoin made no monetary gains from it because of the >100% RB players, VIP, Table Starter, etc.
This is total Bull Shit, and I can't imagine how any would believe this unless they didn't understand how the system works, or they just so badly wanted it to be true that they somehow convinced themselves it was.
On average, less than two players per table will be eligible for over 100% rakeback at any time.
0% of players receive 100% rakeback at Heads Up tables.
They are a MINORITY.
Even if these players each got 1,000% rake back, it wouldn't mean Betcoin shouldn't be responsible for every last chip of every last player that had money taken from them that shouldn't have been taken.
Dooglus seems to be one of the more trusted members around here and I think the way he phrased his question to Betcoin was good:
Betcoin deleted the post without ever responding. It was posted in
THIS THREAD Check it out and notice from the last couple posts it appears everyone is happy and all issues resolved.
https://www.betcoin.ag/ring-game-rake-testers-needed