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February 09 2011

Revisiting Black Card and Rakeback

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When Full Tilt first introduced Black Card and their new rakeback system, a lot of people were complaining about the loss in overall rakeback. But with the addition of Black Card tier systems, which triple and quadruple your valuable FTPs, your rakeback actually ends up being pretty high.
Let's look at how much rakeback you make 6-tabling 100NL and 50NL Full Ring Rush.
In 25 hours, I raked 1247 for rb of $336.7, for about $13.50/hr in pure rakeback. This is pretty consistent over a large sample.
Over this same stretch, I accumulated 23.5k FTPs. 1k FTP points are worth about $3.30 after the rakeback hit. So these 23.5k FTPs are worth $77.55 in bonuses. This is approximately +6.2% rakeback.
If I had Black Card, I would have made $155 in FTPs, for about 39% in rakeback.
If I had Black Card at the 1500 tier, I would have made $232.5 in FTPs, for about 45.2% in rakeback.
If I had Black Card at the 3000 tier, I would have made $310 in FTPs, for about 51.4% rakeback.
So 6-tabling 100NL and 50NL, you'd make:
w/o Black Card: $ 16.60/hr
w/ Black Card: $19.64/hr
w/BC1500: $22.75/hr
w/BC3000: $25.84/hr
When Full Tilt first introduced Black Card and their new rakeback system, a lot of people were complaining about the loss in overall rakeback. But with the addition of Black Card tier systems, which triple and quadruple your valuable FTPs, your rakeback actually ends up being pretty high.

Let's look at how much rakeback you make 6-tabling 100NL and 50NL Full Ring Rush.

In 25 hours, I raked 1247 for rb of $336.7, for about $13.50/hr in pure rakeback. This is pretty consistent over a large sample.

Over this same stretch, I accumulated 23.5k FTPs. 1k FTP points are worth about $3.30 after the rakeback hit. So these 23.5k FTPs are worth $77.55 in bonuses. This is approximately +6.2% rakeback.

If I had Black Card, I would have made $155 in FTPs, for about 39% in rakeback.

If I had Black Card at the 1500 tier, I would have made $232.5 in FTPs, for about 45.2% in rakeback.

If I had Black Card at the 3000 tier, I would have made $310 in FTPs, for about 51.4% rakeback.

So 6-tabling 100NL and 50NL, you'd make:

w/o Black Card: $ 16.60/hr
w/ Black Card: $19.64/hr
w/BC1500: $22.75/hr
w/BC3000: $25.84/hr

Pretty sick. From a percentage perspective, Black Card's 3k tier is only slightly worse than SNE in terms of rewards, but considerably easy to get (you can totally do it in two months).

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