[OdZhold41nce]

APL are lying cheating scums,

The APL tour ticket has been valued at $1350 at various events all over Australia however with a total pool of $203,000 and a starting field of 203 at the recent Sydney event that places the value of the ticket at $1100 at best?

I personally am sick of this free for all nature in the poker community ......venues taking more rake than adequate???

These amateur (here for a laugh and good time) players are unwittingly being fleeced for $1000's of dollars each week.

The Cash tables they run .....taking 10% form each pot with the blinds at $2 $3 and the average player buying in for $120. That's $1000 on the table with the class of (tilted call raises with 810 drunk) players most pots exceed the $80 mark so that's $8 a hand raked, minimum after 4 hrs of play at around 12 hands played per hour they have raked a minimum of $386 max of $800 between 2 Td's on top of their hourly wage tax free they have done well for themselves, that's just at an average game.

My example of corruption will be a recent WA regional finals 500+ starting players 100+ on tilt from semi early busts 6+ cash tables with TD's licking their lips at $3/$5 binds avg pot at $100.
Cash tables started at 2pm and continued till 10pm that's 8hrs 12 pots an hour x 6 tables that's a ridiculous total minimum rake of $5760 not to mention the fact they also run $20 and $50 sng's on the side taking 1 seat rake.

This is why years ago Poker was considered a scumbag game where people were stolen from and manipulated out of their cash.
Its just a matter of time before this does a full circle and all the fish die out.

I personally have taken my time out to personally attend these venues and make aware to regs that they are being conned out of $100's of dollars and the response has been amazement as most haven't thought where all the money ends up and the processes that have been set to make them believe its legit.