So Yegor reminds me how expensive the rake is for nanostakes HU cash. I went to PTR and looked at the their Rake comparison page, which calculates the average rake per 100 hands from their database (rather than using the poker site’s arcane rake calculations). I came up with this table for the three sites that do HU less than nl50;
| nl2 | nl5 | nl10 | nl25 | nl50 | ||
| Cereus | $ | 0.62 | 1.85 | 3.00 | 5.00 | |
| bb | 0.31 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 0.10 | ||
| 35.00% | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.08 | 0.07 | ||
| Bodog Poker | $ | 0.66 | 1.60 | 3.90 | 6.82 | |
| bb | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.14 | ||
| 28%? | 0.10 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.10 | ||
| Cake Poker | $ | 2.87 | 5.00 | |||
| bb | 0.11 | 0.10 | ||||
| 38.00% | 0.07 | 0.06 | ||||
| iPoker | $ | 0.57 | 1.16 | 2.62 | 3.30 | 6.30 |
| bb | 0.29 | 0.23 | 0.26 | 0.13 | 0.13 | |
| 30%? | 0.20 | 0.16 | 0.18 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
I added a new column which converted their $ values for bb (I think? – probably got it wrong, but whatever), then the lowest values for each buy-in level is bolded. Finally I added another column which gave the bb reduced by my rakeback (albeit at my rate as an affiliate – drop a few points off that for the masses).
It looks like nl5 might be ok with Bodog, and then above that Cake looks good. nl2 is clearly a waste of time. The only thing about Bodog is that it’s not a regular rake sign-up, it has to be a ‘secret’ bonus offer I can offer through people already signed up with meteoricpoker.com and I haven’t figured out how to enable it yet (sooo professional!). I already have the Cake account though, so could just jump in at nl25. No HUD though which is a bit scary.
