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Winner Poker Rakeback

Update –  UK players have now been banned from Winner. We recommend Black Chip Poker.

Get tagged for 65% source based rakeback by signing up to Winner Poker via the forwarding links on this page – having first cleared your browser cookies.

Rakeback.com tagged players play with an exclusive iPoker rakeback deal instead of the lower value default VIP program. You may need to disable AdBlock when clicking the link below.

Access the Winner Poker website securely via the link above to lock in your 65% iPoker rakeback. Enter referral code RBCOM when creating your account.

To activate Rakeback, it’s important that you don’t visit the Winner Poker site directly through Google or the Invite a Friend program before using the links on this page.

Winner Poker Rakeback Payments

Winner Poker rakeback payments are made weekly, directly to your account. Payments usually arrive Tuesday evenings CET (Central Europe time).

You can track your rakeback as follows:

1. Open the Winner Poker game client
2. Login with your user ID and password
3. Click the “Cashier” button bottom right of the client lobby
4. Click the “My Account” tab
5. Under the left navigation options, you can review your account balance and transaction history

How 65% iPoker Rakeback Works

Rakeback.com’s exclusive up to 65% iPoker deal is open to all players signing up via the links on this page. Players must earn a minimum of $5 rakeback per week, something to bear in mind if you’re a microstakes player (so a required $7.70 in rake paid weekly).

Players are paid every Tuesday. That payment covers rakeback for the previous Monday to Sunday period.

Winner Poker uses the weighted contributed rake method.

See the full review of Winner Poker for in-depth details of this iPoker skin and mobile app.

How to Claim Your iPoker Rakeback Deal

1. Clear internet cookies
2. Access the Winner Poker website via the links on this page
3. Download and install the software client from the Winner Poker website
4. Create your account entering referral code RBCOM (not essential but helps as a backup)

You will then be able to log into iPoker’s website for rakeback players – Pokeragent.net – after approx 24 hours and see your rakeback info. But there’s no need to wait until you can log in to start playing as your rake will still be tracked.

UK players should use this alternative download link to access the UK version and our rakeback deal. SetupPoker.exe will download after clicking.

Source Based Rake

On Jan 1 the iPoker network switched to a ‘source based rake‘ (SBR) system whereby net depositing players receive more rakeback credit and each player is assigned a real player value (RPV). The advantage of this system is recreational players last longer in the games – so while your bb/100 from rakeback may drop, your winnings should rise.

On Pokeragent.net players can see their rake data. Log in with your Winner registered email and user ID to track your stats over any date range:

Your rakeback is 65% of the Total RPV figure displayed in green. That’s calculated as 50% of the ‘old rake’ (how things used to work on iPoker and how they do on most poker sites) plus 50% of the source based rake (the new system).

In the example above, the player would see $370 rake in his Holdem Manager / PokerTracker and receive 65% x $214 = $139.10 rakeback. Payments are made in Euros and rounded down to the nearest Euro so he’d receive €126 over that period.

That would be 37.5% rakeback on the old iPoker rake system, although he can expect a higher winrate than before as this new rakeback system keeps recreational players in the games for longer.

Read more how rakeback calculated on the Pokeragent website here.

Winner Poker Rake Structure

The ‘Rake per 100 Hands (€)’ and ‘Rake Paid per 100 Hands (BB)’ columns are based on data-mining research conducted by the Rakeback.com research department. The rake structure shown below came into effect April 5, 2014.

NO LIMIT & POT LIMIT HOLD’EM

NLHE and PLHE games are raked 5 – 6.66%. Rake is collected using the incremental method*.

5-10 Players

3-4 Players

Heads Up

* 6.66% refers to €0.01 per €0.15 in the pot. 5% is €0.01 per €0.20 above €0.05/€0.10 stakes, or €0.05 per €1 at €0.50/€1+.

POT LIMIT OMAHA

PLO games are raked with the same rake structure as NLHE & PLHE, at 5 – 6.66% incrementally*.

5-10 Players

3-4 Players

Heads Up

* 6.66% again refers to €0.01 per €0.15 in the pot. 5% is €0.01 per €0.20 above €0.05/€0.10 stakes, or €0.05 per €1 at €0.50/€1+.

LIMIT (Limit Hold’em, Stud, Razz, Limit Omaha)

NL and PL games are raked 3.75 – 4%. Rake is collected using the incremental method*.

5-10 Players

3-4 Players

Heads Up

* 4% refers to €0.01 per €0.25 in the pot at €0.02/€0.04 – €0.10/€0.20 stakes, €0.02 per €0.50 at €0.25/€0.50 – €1/€2, €0.20 per €5.00 at €2/€4, and €0.40 per €10.00 at €3/€6 – €10/€20. 3.75% is €0.75 per €20.00 at €20/€40.

Rake paid is lower in iPoker’s fast fold poker format ‘Speed Holdem’ owing to a lower average table VPIP. See here for info on rake in Twister Poker.

Find out if you’re on the iPoker banned countries list here (US signups aren’t accepted).

History of Changes

• Sep 4, 2012 – iPoker split its network into two tiers with separate playerpools, Winner Poker formed part of iPoker 1. The highest iPoker rakeback deals were around 55 – 60% value
• Jan 20, 2014 – iPoker introduces Twister Poker, its take on the Lottery SNG format
• Apr 5, 2014 – iPoker reverted all USD tables to EUR currency then removed stakes above €5/€10 in NL & PL and above €10/€20 in Fixed Limit. The Euro rake caps raised the effective rake, 100nl with a $3 rake cap suddenly became e.g. 115nl with a $3.57 rake cap depending on the exchange rate. 70% rakeback alleviates this somewhat.
• Jan 1, 2015 – iPoker switched to ‘source based rake’ a system which favors recreational players.