Stag and Doe rake?

Muddguts

A friend plans on setting up a .25/.50 cash game at his S&D. What do you think is a fair rake? He doesn't want to gouge his friend's and family and is thinking $0.25 rake per hand but I think that is too low. What if we go $0.50 every hand (except flopless hands) and $1 if the pot reaches $20 or more?

Looking for you, the pro's, opinions..

Quimby

People are pretty generous at stag and does. $0.50 is fine, $1.00 is probably fine too. Note that you're going to get around 30 hands per hour which would only be $10 to $15 depending on the pots.

Another idea would be to do a 7 person double-or-nothing with 3 players paid and one buy-in to the happy couple. These could be set up to run for 20-30 minutes.

iNano78

To avoid illegalities regarding rake, I made it that every buy-in or re-buy involved a 10% "optional" donation (that wasn't really optional 'cause everybody knew that was the point). Those donations went in a separate can when chips were purchased so it wasn't getting raked off the table.

Milo

Nano's suggestion would seem to be the easiest to manage for all concerned. I cannot see anyone arguing about 10% of a buy-in (ie $50.00 gets you $45.00 in chips. All the $$$ left over goes to the happy couple.

moose

Quimby wrote: »

Another idea would be to do a 7 person double-or-nothing with 3 players paid and one buy-in to the happy couple. These could be set up to run for 20-30 minutes.

This is way better. If the S&D has a lot of regular players then no-one will leave the cash game and people won't get to play and if it doesn't then you will have a hard time keeping the table full.

Lots of people will try a tourney one time because they've seen it on TV and they understand exactly how much it will cost them but casual players will never sit in a cash game for the first time.

If you run a sng then you can start a list and have people sign up as they come in the door and every time it fills, call the list and start the game. Also cash games can become problematic if a good track of the cash chips is not kept and the game ends up being short. Sngs have no money on the table and the buyins and payouts are easy to keep track of.

Muddguts

I like the idea of the double-or-nothings and have run it by the groom to be. Thanks so far!