Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
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yep, cant get any cheaper than stars unless you got 50+% RB (btw turbos cheaper) 1$ games are a rip, too hard to beat the rake (10 fees OK) better using EQ points in cheap games, no fee and soft games.
Joined: Jan '09
Location: Italy
Age: 53 (M)
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I don't play there for ages and, if we can consider that a poker room very low traffic when I played there), If I'm right in betraise poker u have NO RAKE. I cannot check cause I've unistalled software but if any mobster is playing there can tell us more
Joined: Aug '09
Location: Chile
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 1353
Rake is also 20cent in $1 dolar S&G at Pokerstars. This is the standard rake for low limits S&G. The best what I heard is BigBetPoker with 10 cent and the worst is at PartyPoker with S&G of 0.80+0.20.
Posted by magatt966: If I'm right in betraise poker u have NO RAKE.
That's right,but there is no real traffic and I also heard of people get troubles with cashing out. @ OP,stars is definately the cheapest,followed by bigbetpoker (or the merge network in general),fulltilt is pretty cheap too at the most stakes
Joined: Sep '09
Location: Sweden
Age: 33 (M)
Posts: 12
Thanks for the answers guys. I think we settled that pokerstars and bigbetpoker is the way to go, and maybe fulltilt too. Since I'm pretty new to poker I just wanted to know where to start. I've grown fond of SnG's I just wanted to know this. I'm just gonna work on my titan bonus and then I'll move over to pokerstars or FTP
Joined: Nov '08
Location: Spain
Age: 42 (M)
Posts: 11
You should try any room of the BossMedia network (IPN), like Paradise, EuroSuper, etc. For $1 SNG the fees are $0.10 ($0.05 in heads up) For $2 SNG, $0.20 ($0.10 heads up) etc
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
Posted by arisko: Thanks for the answers guys. I think we settled that pokerstars and bigbetpoker is the way to go, and maybe fulltilt too. Since I'm pretty new to poker I just wanted to know where to start. I've grown fond of SnG's I just wanted to know this. I'm just gonna work on my titan bonus and then I'll move over to pokerstars or FTP
cake also has good fees, for low limit its 10% but for higher its 5-7%
Yea i used to grind Ipoker SNG, but the rake is just a killer, even for the cash games, rake is still pretty hefty. Stars & Bodog are by far the best at the micros in terms of rake; Bodog is even better than stars on the cash table... 5%rake with a cap of 10cents!
Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 59 (M)
Posts: 6786
Don't know the games at Bodog. But Stars has low rake, so does the Merge network (Big Bet, Carbon...) They have far less traffic tho. Avoid low stakes SnGs at IPoker, Ongame and Party. The rake there will kill you.
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Ireland
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 360
Pokerstars turbo are definitely the best. They're turbos are cheaper for some reason which is class because you don't have to wait as long at all. I'd never really bother playing any other SnG's that aren't pokerstars turbos
or FTP
