To: blind-geezer who wrote (19305 ) 12/22/2004 11:36:15 AM From: Knighty Tin Respond to blind, they make money off everyone. The poker rooms simply rake every pot over a high enough level (usually $5). As you play, you will usually notice a chip or two in front of the dealer icon or in the chip holder. That's the rake. If you look at Party Poker/Empire, you have a poker room with about 13,000 real money players playing ring games (on tournaments they take their rake out of the buy-in, so it's a different set-up) at any given time. That's about 1625 games going on. Averaging 30 raked hands an hour. With an average rake of about a buck, that works out to $48,750 per hour. That's over a mil a day. Of course, you have all that overhead, so it's not all profit. Just 90% or so. <G> And not counting the tournaments, which I understand are more profitable. I don't know what kind of bite player bonuses take out of it, but it is probably substantial.
