Why do you charge 50% extra rake on low level BH tournies?

scotty77

Just noticed that £2BHs are charged 30p rake, and the £5 are charged 75p rake, compared to the standard rake on the normal NLHE tournies of 20p and 50p respectfully.

However this pattern doesn't continue on the £10/£20BHs, where the rake falls in line with the industry wide standard of 10pc of £1/£2.

Why is this? Can someone from Sky please explain?  I would have thought that charging extra rake on the low limit tournies looks quite bad to new players who are used to 10pc on other sites.

Thank you

GaryQQQ

........ and £2 and £5 Bounty Hunter tournaments, the rake is 50% higher than freezeouts at the same buy-in.

scotty77

thats what i said lol

GaryQQQ

LOL, so you did. For some reason I thought you were talking about DYMs. That'll teach me to post on the forum between hands.

This is what I meant;

+1 Why is this so Sky?

pod1

+2 what they said!

debdobs_67

+3 WHAT THEY SAID

Ploppy33

+4

YOUNG_GUN

i agree with the above +5

DELTA

bank holiday so we will have to wait imo till the suits come up with an excuse but +6.del

kaymac

Always intrigued me that on a MTT £2 BH rake is 30p, but on a STT it is only 25p...... not really sure if there is a reason behind this ????????

loonytoons

I asked this question way back when BH tourneys started and was told by sky that its is 'a business discision' as to the size of the rake whatever that means lol

scotty77

bump

oynutter

I have raised this issue a few times and was told that this is the rake that fits in with the "current business model"-- obviously there could not possibly be better justification than that for ripping off the low stakes players on the site----innit!

SolarCarro

Here is one for Sky Vegas to answer

I played Texas HoldEm bonus earlier and finished up 10p (don't spend it all at once Dave)

Looking in my account I was only credited 9p

They do this every time!!

Why are Sky Vegas stealing 1p?

Dave

debdobs_67

In Response to Re: Why do you charge 50% extra rake on low level BH tournies?:

Here is one for Sky Vegas to answer I played Texas HoldEm bonus earlier and finished up 10p (don't spend it all at once Dave) Looking in my account I was only credited 9p They do this every time!! Why are Sky Vegas stealing 1p? Dave
Posted by SolarCarro

Probably it is also in the 'current business model' xxx

GaryQQQ

In case any of you haven't noticed each of the last 2 mornings there have been two new £150 gtd bounty hunter tournaments at 9-45 and 10-45am, the buy-in is £3.00 + 30p.

That's only 10% rake.

Support them if you can and we might get more.

FlashFlush

They have to put that little extra box above your name where it shows your head value, therefore will cost them more to run the tourney ;-)

MP33

In Response to Re: Why do you charge 50% extra rake on low level BH tournies?:

i agree with the above +5
Posted by YOUNG_GUN

+6 to what they said - i know its only a small amount but it puts me off playing it and i,m sure i,m not the only one

party poker also for some reason charge an extra dollar for 5 dollar games which is 20% instead of the usual 10%