How should I adjust my play considering rakeback

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How should I adjust my play considering rakeback

If I expect certain level of money back at the end of the month from rakeback, should I then play some hands that are -EV at the moment but profitable after I get my money from rakeback.

Or, should I just play the hands that are +EV and count rakeback as the extra to the winrate.

Where I'm coming from is the fact that some hands are -EV just because of the rake, thus having rakeback would make the environment as if with smaller rake

Also the rakeback amount is 30% (they promised 60% but it's some kind of small text catch - basically i get the same money back as the reward system)
The levels in question are the micros so that's why it probably matters quite a lot

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Bingo 123 6 years, 9 months ago

You should calculate your Effective rake pressure and go from there

Citvej 6 years, 9 months ago

First time I'm hearing of this term but I never yet employed any mathemathical approach to determining the impact.

Most I've done is analyzed how many bb the rake is taking from my winrate based on the hands I played.

To adjust the preflop ranges I watched some RIO videos for the stakes I play

Is there a software, method/approach or RIO esstential vid for doing what you said?
And to clarify, your answer confirmed my thinking was correct?

Bingo 123 6 years, 9 months ago

Yes you should certainly account for rake pressure to adjust your ranges. You calculate effective rake pressure simply by rake - rakeback = effective rake.

So example micro rake pressure on your site = 10bb/100 and you have 30% rakeback the effective rakepressure = 10-3 = 7bb/100

So that will be the number to use in the calculations when tweaking your ranges.

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