Bodog Poker Changes Rake Structure For Micro-Stakes Cash Games

Bodog Poker has just changed how it’s going to calculate the rake taken from each pot in real money ring games. The announcement did not come out of Bodog itself, but rather through a story circulating the web on online poker rakes and rakeback programs.

It seems BodogPoker only used to charge an average rake of just over 2% for all $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold’em cash games, also known as the micro-stakes cash games. Many BodogPoker members really appreciated this low rake, and it’s long been an incentive for many online poker players not yet members of Bodog to get in on BodogPoker’s micro-stakes action with a greater value for each nickel or dime spent.

To be fair, other sites with higher rakes often offer a rakeback program that balances out a lot of any discrepancy in rake structures.

With the new way Bodog is taking rakes from micro-stakes pots—raising the maximum rake taken to $3.00 from $0.10—the average rake at BodogPoker’s No Limit Hold’em micro-stakes cash tables has now doubled to just over 4%. That is still a great deal lower than many other online poker rooms, but still a bit of a disappointment for existing micro-stakes cash game players at Bodog Poker. Never the less, a $3.00 rake would mean the pot had reached $150, and if you’re in a hand at a micro-stakes table with a pot that has grown to $150 and you win it all—are you really going to fret about having to fork over 3 bucks of it? We think not.

Rakes are only taken in those hands in Bodog Poker real money ring games in which a flop is dealt.