No matter how you cut it, if $100 goes into the pot and only $95 gets paid out, poker, like sports betting is a negative expectation game.
Which of course doesn't mean it can't be beaten by the sharpest players.
Obviously a smaller rake in high limit games and tournaments makes those much, much of a negative expectation.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Peter M." <midnight1626@...> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, mike wrote:
> > Being smart players here we can all agree with you. HOWEVER, that is not
> > how casinos look at it. In poker everyone at the table, even Doyle
> > Brunson, is playing at negative expectation games due to the rake.
>
> A smart player would understand how mind-bogglingly wrong your claim about
> poker is. Were you just being sloppy with terminology or do you truly
> not understand how Doyle has positive expectation?
>
