When you are playing limit poker, many online poker rooms will clump more than one limit together within the same rake category. This means that you might end up in a situation where $1/$2 and $2/$4 games are raked the same way. Suppose the rake for these games is a 10% rake that is taken at the rate of $1 for every $10 in the pot up to a maximum amount of $3 in rake from each hand. This is a reasonable rake structure and one that you will see time and time again in the online world. You will even see it in the offline world sometimes, although it would be below average in terms of the offline world of poker.
Taking a look at the $1/$2 and the $2/$4 games reveals the fact that the latter is twice the size of the former. This means that all other things being equal, a pot in $2/$4 will be twice the size of a pot in $1/$2. In actuality this usually does not happen in the online world as tables at the higher limit will have a larger selection of tight players that do not play as aggressively at the higher limit as they would at the lower limit. But if the players were to play the same, a $30 pot in $1/$2 would be a $60 pot in $2/$4.
If the rake is the same for these two games however, the $1/$2 game would be raked at a total of $3 for a $30 pot. But what about the $2/$4 game? The maximum take that is taken from the hand is $3, which essentially means that there is no rake above $30 in any pot from either of those two games. So a $30 pot and a $60 pot would both have a $3 rake, allowing the larger pot to essentially play to an extra $30 in the pot for free.
In essence, this is exactly why playing higher is cheaper in online poker. When you are playing at higher limits, you still benefit from the overall maximum rake rule, allowing you to actually pay a much lower percentage in rake than you would under other circumstances. Essentially, if you can play normal winning poker at a higher limit, you should graduate upwards and play at that limit in order to get the benefit of the lower rake payments over the long term. As long as you make sure that the limit is your highest winning limit rather than your lowest losing limit, you will be able to gain some extra cash through this method over the long term.
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