Winning Poker Network ‘The Beast’ Race Now Free

The Beast progressive rake race at Winning Poker Network rooms now comes with zero rake drop. WPN listened to players and decided to fund the entirety of the promotion themselves instead of cutting into players’ winrates with extra jackpot rake.

A 100% free shot at a large payday is yours while you’re grinding, especially if you can play enough to make it into the top 20 leaderboard positions.

Beast Rake Contribution

The beast is funded by WPN according to players’ usual weighed contributed rake. Your rakeback isn’t affected.

Tournaments count towards a separate Beast race for MTT players, who win live satellite packages as prizes.

Beast Leaderboard Points

Players earn 1 point per $0.02 they contribute to the beast.

Each Beast race runs over a week from 00:00 Saturday – 23:59 Friday. Cash prizes are issued at the end of each Monday for the previous week’s race.

Beast Prizes

The more games run, the higher the Beast prizepool rises. 100s of leaderboard spots receive prizes each week, with more winners for higher prizepools.

For example a $50k Beast prizepool pays out 200 players, and a $90k pool will see 360 paid. 25% of the pool is retained to seed the following week’s prizepool.

The top 20 rakers receive 13% of the prizepool. First place is capped at $20k to flatten the payout structure WPN calculates and award more money to casual players.

To date the Beast has paid out over $4m in prizes – check your current leaderboard ranking on the Americas Cardroom or Black Chip Poker website or via the links in the top right of the poker client lobby.