TO HOLDEM STA ELINIKA CASINO

[SWEDENFISH]

AKOUSTIKE APO TO IPOURGIO POS THA IOTHETISOUNE

THN KANIOTA TOU CASINO THS BARCELONA.

THIMATE KAPIOS PIA ITAN H KANIOTA?

[Jimmakos]

PUBLISHED: Tuesday Jun 28, 2005 12:00 AM

[...]The game is raked, and it was the most expensive hold'em game I had ever played in. The rake is posted as "2.5 percent," but that is somewhat misleading. They took €5 from the first €100 (5 percent, not 2.5 percent), then another €5 from each successive €200, with a rake cap of a remarkable €25 on pots of €900 or more. Pots that large were probably as common as any other loose $20-$40 game in California, but I guessed that the rake averaged just over €10 per hand. That means the house was taking about €300-€350 per hour, and with nine players at the table, this constituted about €35 per person per hour, or about $42 per hour. Compare that to $14 or $16 per hour for a typical U.S. $30-$60 game and you can see how expensive that game was to play.[...]

http://www.cardplayer.com/magazine/article/14816