Chips & economy

Rakeback & commission

The gross-to-net waterfall, the pool model behind the percentages, and the claim-on-demand rule that runs the whole economy.

Rake (the club's cut of each pot) and tournament fees are the raw revenue everything else is split from. That gross amount flows out to several parties at once.

Who generated the rake?

Every split on this page keys off one question: whose rake was it? MPoker answers it by contribution, not by who won:

• No rake is taken at all unless the hand reaches the flop ("no flop, no drop"). Raked hands take a fixed percentage of the pot, up to the table's cap.
• The rake is then attributed to players in proportion to the chips each put into the pot. Put in half the pot, and half the rake counts as yours — win or lose.
• Your rakeback, your agent's commission, and the reports all build on that per-player number.

In a plain club game that's the whole story: the club collects the rake, and the waterfall below divides it.

On a union table there's one extra step, because players from different clubs share the pot. Each player's slice of the rake follows them to the club they sat through. The union keeps that club's contract percentage of the club's slice; the rest is the club's rake share, credited to its line on the union fee ledger — and the club's own waterfall (rakeback, commission, override) applies to what it keeps. Two clubs with different fee deals can sit at the same table and each is charged exactly its own rate on exactly its own players' rake.

The waterfall

From gross rake/fee, in order:

• Union fee comes off the top (if the club belongs to a union) — at the percentage in that club's contract with the union.
• Player rakeback — a share returned to the player who generated the rake.
• Agent commission — paid to the player's agent.
• Master-agent override — an extra share to the master agent above that agent.
• Club net — whatever the club keeps after all of the above.

The pool model behind the numbers

Each percentage has a clear owner, and each is capped by the one above it:

• The club (owner or manager) sets each player's rakeback pool — the total percentage of that player's rake that leaves the club's side.
• The player's agent decides how the pool splits between themselves and the player, and can never take more than the pool holds.
• The club separately sets each master agent's pool and each agent's allowance — the ceiling on what that agent may promise across their players.

Claim on demand

Earnings accrue into a pending balance and stay there until the recipient clicks Claim, which moves them into their chip wallet. "Total" or "claimed" figures are lifetime amounts already taken; "generated" is everything accrued regardless of claim status.

The approval split

When an agent approves a referred player, the approval dialog shows the live split across five buckets — Union fee · Club retained · Master retained · Agent retained · Player retained — so everyone can see exactly who gets what before it's confirmed. An agent can't promise away more than their allowance, so an approval is sometimes held until the agent's profile reloads with fresh figures.

Earned rakeback is sticky

Already-accrued commission and rakeback stay owed and claimable even after an agent is reassigned, demoted, banned, or leaves. Future accrual stops the moment the relationship ends, but past earnings are never erased.