Party Poker Makes Changes to Rake Structure
This was published 31-08-2011Party Poker has made changes to its rake structure and will be using the “weighted contributed” method to calculate raked hands, with immediate effect. The leading online poker room is moving away from the traditional “dealt method” which was found on the site up until now despite the fact that the change could work against it in the long run.
Players are credited with a raked hand if cards are dealt, whether he or she plays tightly or loosely in the dealt method. Tight players obviously prefer this method as it enables them to score raked hands by doing nothing further than having their cards dealt. This method also helps tight players to redeem bonus and promo requirements.
The result of Party Poker moving away from the dealt method will result in players being credited for the part of the rake that they contribute. This will enable loose, fast players to have the opportunity of earning more that those players who stick to tight playing.
Party Poker has also announced that it will be making changes to the rake structure at the site. No Limit and Pot Limit poker games will now have the rake levels moved down with the highest rake levels beginning at $3 / $6 instead of the current $15 / $30. Anything below this level will remain unchanged.
As far as fixed limit games is concerned, every 20c in the pot of micro limit games will rake in one cent …for instance, those games with blinds ranging from $0.02 / $0.04 to $0.05 / $0.10.
Although the above changes could financially benefit Party Poker, there is a good chance that mid to high stake players may be chased away from the site at a critical time when Party Poker should be attempting to attract players who are moving away from troubled sites and looking to play elsewhere.
