Boyle Poker

Lexus1976

How do Boyle poker make money, when I set up an account and start playing poker?

Pulsar Eagle

A thing called rake.

Donkathon

Dont start

Lexus1976

Whats rake?

one ill cat

Everytime you register for a tournament you pay a fee and everytime you win a cash pot 'rake' is retained from your winnings. This profit goes to the network you play on. Skins, like Boyles, then get a percentage of whatever rake etc their players generate whilst playing poker from the netowork (ipoker).

Figured you may as well get an answer before the sarcasm sets in.

karpov33

you have 376 posts and you dont know what rake is ??????????????

hotspur

karpov33 wrote: »

you have 376 posts and you dont know what rake is ??????????????

[ ] Understands boards.ie

Donkathon

karpov33 wrote: »

you have 376 posts and you dont know what rake is ??????????????

well in fairness there is more to boards than poker :rolleyes:

Slash/ED

On Boyle the rake should be around ~5% of whatever the pot you win is, capped at a certain amount depending on what level you play at. For tournaments it's the bit in the price, like a 3+.30 tournament costs you 3.30 dollars, 3 goes into the prizepool and 30 cents goes to line the gold pockets in Boyle HQ :pac:

Icarus152

Donkathon wrote: »

well in fairness there is more to boards than poker :rolleyes:

Don't be silly.

Headspace

I wonder what there arrangement with i-poker is then? Do they pay them a percentage or what?

Donkathon

Headspace wrote: »

I wonder what there arrangement with i-poker is then? Do they pay them a percentage or what?

They do pay them a % (not that they earn it :rolleyes:) and you or I will never know what arrangement they have top secret and all that,

Paul Spillane

Donkathon wrote: »

They do pay them a % (not that they earn it :rolleyes:) and you or I will never know what arrangement they have top secret and all that,

Well if it's top secret i will get in trouble for telling you we pay them 20%. So for every $ you rake .20c goes to Ipoker

Also we subsidize all the shortfalls in guarentees that I-poker put up; for example the current ECOOP series is full of overlays, guess who is paying for that?

RoundTower

Paul Spillane wrote: »

Well if it's top secret i will get in trouble for telling you we pay them 20%. So for every $ you rake .20c goes to Ipoker

Also we subsidize all the shortfalls in guarentees that I-poker put up; for example the current ECOOP series is full of overlays, guess who is paying for that?

aren't they opt-in events?

Paul Spillane

RoundTower wrote: »

aren't they opt-in events?

They are indeed and we may well opt out of the next one as it's a ridiculous situation regarding the guarentee's.
We will of course lose some players to other I-Poker skins as a result but i would rather throw the money we are contributing to the overlays (we have no input as to what I-Poker decide the guarentee is) into a tournament which may well gain us players from other I-Poker skins.

hotspur

Paul Spillane wrote: »

Also we subsidize all the shortfalls in guarentees that I-poker put up; for example the current ECOOP series is full of overlays, guess who is paying for that?

Explains why Boyles just shut down their Spanish based multilingual support service with 40 getting the heave ho.

"Sorry folks there was another overlay today so that's 2 more of you gone, fingers crossed for the PLO event tomorrow, if any of you have friends who play poker I'd get ringing if I were you"

Thecageyone

Who pays? The customers usually. Especially on iPoker, they pay in many, many ways.