Hi Guys,
I play $3.50 9man STT's on Pokerstars. I recently set myself a goal of grinding through at least 500 games before I take my results too seriously. Financially, bankroll is not a big issue to me. I am making a profit from playing unraked poker in live homegames and bars, for hundreds of dollars, whereas I play the micros online for training purposes. Having said that I do want to move up in the stakes.
But let's talk about rake.
$3.50 (9man) on PS = $3.16 + $0.34
$7 STT (9man) on PS = $6.45 + $0.55
$15 STT (9man) on PS = $13.89 + $1.11
Math isn't my strong point, so correct me if i'm wrong, but you'd divide the rake by the total buyin to get a %, so 0.34/3.50x100% = 9.7%. For $7 it's %7.9 and $15 is %7.4.
My plan is to grind $3.50 for so long that I can identify a winning trend and build up enough of a bankroll that I can move up to one of these higher stakes. But choice of stake is a bankroll issue first, and table selection issue second. If I knew that I was beating $7, wouldn't it make more sense to deposit 100BI's or more and grind those instead so as to pay less rake?
I welcome any ideas that would help me figure out whether moving up a stake would be enough of an ROI drop to render the Rake drop worthwhile.
