Rake Structure

It seems like you misunderstand something. Rake from cash games and tournament fees are the pokersites earnings for running the site.

Here is an example from a cash game. Let us say that there are only 2 players in the pot which are the Big Blind and the Small Blind. They bet to showndown and each player have paid $2 to the pot so the pot tolal is $4. the winning player will not recieve $4 but $3.80 instead. 20 cents are deducted as the rake and goes to the pokersite. Normal rake is 5% up to a maximum depending of the gametype and stakes.

Normally the maximum rake taken are up to $3. But not at the iPoker Network. Here they take up to $5 in high stakes cash games. Because of that iPoker sites nearly never have high stakes players and I understand them. Why should they pay $2 more for each game compared to most of the sites at other networks? It is a pity because it can be quite amusing to watch such games.