
kdmeteor
Rock Star
Silver Level
By "effective rake" I mean rake if you subtract all bonuses and cashbacks. This is a super complex question because GGPoker is a giant dumb spectacle with a gazillion bonuses, and many of them are actually not insignificant (E.g., I think I've gotten around 2% rakeback on the ThanksGG tournaments so far, but ofc that doesn't mean much since the sample size is small). So I'm not expecting anyone to figure out the answer in the comments, I'm mostly wondering whether anyone has already done the work? Like, somewhere on the internet, has someone written a super comprehensive blog post digging into this question and finding the effective rake for different game types? If so I can't find it via google.
I think the raw rake is very high (6% uncapped I think plus a jackpot thing), the rake afer rakeback is high-ish (3.5-4.5% or sth?), but my guess is that the rake after rakeback and all bonuses is actually on the lower side, and the way the site makes money is because of the volume. But idk, and would love to know.
Edit: Bonuses I'm aware of when playing No-Limit Hold'em, not counting one-shot promotional programs, are (1) Rakeback, (2) ThanksGG Tournaments, (3) cash drops, (4) jackpots, (5) weekly leaderboards. All of these add some amount of effective rakeback, and it's very hard to say how much. (Like many I would much rather have zero bonuses and low rake, but then the site wouldn't be successful, so this is what we're stuck with.)
I think the raw rake is very high (6% uncapped I think plus a jackpot thing), the rake afer rakeback is high-ish (3.5-4.5% or sth?), but my guess is that the rake after rakeback and all bonuses is actually on the lower side, and the way the site makes money is because of the volume. But idk, and would love to know.
Edit: Bonuses I'm aware of when playing No-Limit Hold'em, not counting one-shot promotional programs, are (1) Rakeback, (2) ThanksGG Tournaments, (3) cash drops, (4) jackpots, (5) weekly leaderboards. All of these add some amount of effective rakeback, and it's very hard to say how much. (Like many I would much rather have zero bonuses and low rake, but then the site wouldn't be successful, so this is what we're stuck with.)