If you're gonna have a rake of 10% of each pot then, as I said earlier, you give the players an amount in chips equal to the buy-in.

If you intend to cut $120 out of the game, then everyone is going to have to buy in for about $125, and I'd run a structured game with stakes of $1 and $2.

The only danger is that one or two players have big hot streaks at the beginning, clean everyone else out, and break up the game before you have a chance to get your $120.

That's why I suggest stakes of $1-2. Any higher, and people could get cleaned out too fast before you get your $120. Any lower, and it could take you forever to get your $120.

Casinos don't have that problem because they have people coming in and out of the game all the time. I've played in a casino for ten hours, and during the course of the time I was playing, I played with maybe 20 different people.

Your problem here is that you're trying to run a casino game without that advantage. For you to get your $120, you are going to need a very even distribution of players and winning hands.

If there is $750 in chips at the table, what you want at the end of the night is something like this, with players having approximately these amounts of chips at the end of the game:

Big Winner: $250
Second Winner: $200
1 break-even: $100
1 Big Loser: $0
1 Medium Loser: $55
1 Small Loser: $25

Your share from the rake: $120

Total: $750

Of course, if you keep taking 10% of each pot, and you get good distribution of winning hands among the players and the game lasts a long time, you have a chance to take out more than $120.

If a game like what I've described above lasts 10-12 hours and you get good distribution, at the end of the game the only winner will be the house (you).