Gooner, it wouldn't affect the number of Priority members. The site says all RTR players would get 30% rakeback BUT they still need to earn 10k+ points to get all the added benefits of Prio, so if the site is correct and loads of people doing it, they'd be getting their 30% rakeback on 5k worth of points or whatever, but they still wouldn't be able to play the Prio FRs unless they get 10k+ points.
Rancid, below 10k points the % varies based on how any points you earn and what games you get them in etc but once you get over 10k it's just a flat 20%, 25% or 30% rakeback based on whether you earn 10k+, 20k+ or 30k+. That's why once you get over 10k, happy hours/double points/early bird are all useless other than as a means of maybe getting you to 20k points and so getting an extra 5% rakeback if you might not have otherwise been able to get 20k points.
FWIW, I've contact the site and asked them if I signed up with Sky through them would I get 30% RB every month regardless of whether I earn the required 30,000 points or not, so should find out soon and will let you know.
In Response to Re: Breaking News...ITT: FURIOUS... Attention All Regs : This is totally ambiguous, so RTR are saying ALL players attain Gold Reward status regardless of the volume/rake paid. I just dont believe this is true, otherwise there would be a lot more priority players than currently exist. All you have to do is look at the priority main, yes there are more players this month thanks to double points but given the site is seen as very soft, if 30% rakeback is available then the site should be swamped with rake grinders. Two years ago 20k points would get you nearly a grand playing sngs, now its much less and theres not much incentive to carry on grinding once you get to 10k. Posted by ACEGOONER
Oh yeah, meant to pick up on this point in ym earlier reply. You should be winning money from the games pre-rakeback, so the incentive to carry on grinding past 10k is that you win more money. So it shouldn't be like 'I've got 10k points, why bother carrying on grinding' cos all the time you're grinding, you're winning £££ if you're a winning player (long term obv) and you are still making more money from RB anyway as an added bonus. Remember, for every bit of rake below 10k points you get less than 20% back, over 10k points, you get 20% so the incentive if anything is MORE to carry on playing after you get to 10k where the rakeback is higher than it is sub 10k points.
Just heard from someone (who I won't name) who also messaged RTR and has had the following reply: "There is no required threshold. All RTR players will be automatically upgraded to the Priority Club Gold Rewards level which is worth 30% rakeback.
Players must enter the promo code "REWARDS" in the My Account section of their Sky Poker Account to receive the upgrade. You only need to do this once."
So seems everyone via RTR is getting the 30% regardless of points earned. Wonder how many people are now gonna start multi accounting....
Also have just seen the reply to my own email.... here's my question and the reply:
Hi,
I was looking at the offers you have with Sky Poker and just wanted to query the statement below from your website:
"As of May 1st 2013 all RTR players will be moved to the Sky Poker Rewards program. All RTR players will be automatically upgraded to the Priority Club Gold Rewards level which is worth 30% rakeback"
Does this mean I'd receive 30% cashback every single month I'm with Sky Poker even if I don't earn the required 30,000 points as long as I sign up through raketherake?
Thanks
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Their reply:
Hi Paul
Thank you for your email
This is correct players tracked to RTR at Sky Poker will automatically be at the Gold rewards level without needing to meet the points requirement
I hope that helps. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
As you have noted, RakeTheRake currently do offer a deal for new players where they get 30% Rakeback on registration. Affiliates are an important way for Sky Poker (and any other poker site) to attract new customers, and with deals such as this we hope to bring in more liquidity at the levels many of our Priority players play. There are additional Priority Club benefits which RTR players do not get, plus we hope many of you will be able to enjoy the wider range of games at the stakes you want to play.
There have been some comments about multi-accounting; obviously this goes against the terms and conditions of using Sky Poker and anyone found to do this may be subject to account closure.
Should any of you have any questions about this we ask that you PM us. In the meantime we are going to close this thread.
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cash you get 6 points for every £1 in rake
mtt's 10 points for every £1 in rake
how many points do you get and how much do you get for it
what is the % of rakeback
so if you played 100% cash and earned 10,000 points
you would have payed £1666 in rake
how much you get back for 10,000 ? £285 ? around 18-20%
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I think thats correct
for me at the moment I have 5148 points and that returns £102 so around 13% rakeback purely based on 100% cash games.
Rancid, below 10k points the % varies based on how any points you earn and what games you get them in etc but once you get over 10k it's just a flat 20%, 25% or 30% rakeback based on whether you earn 10k+, 20k+ or 30k+. That's why once you get over 10k, happy hours/double points/early bird are all useless other than as a means of maybe getting you to 20k points and so getting an extra 5% rakeback if you might not have otherwise been able to get 20k points.
FWIW, I've contact the site and asked them if I signed up with Sky through them would I get 30% RB every month regardless of whether I earn the required 30,000 points or not, so should find out soon and will let you know.
Just heard from someone (who I won't name) who also messaged RTR and has had the following reply:
"There is no required threshold. All RTR players will be automatically upgraded to the Priority Club Gold Rewards level which is worth 30% rakeback.
Players must enter the promo code "REWARDS" in the My Account section of their Sky Poker Account to receive the upgrade. You only need to do this once."
So seems everyone via RTR is getting the 30% regardless of points earned. Wonder how many people are now gonna start multi accounting....
I am not a happy chappy.
Only joking lol