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What to do with my points??

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  1. mflippy mflippy is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2009 (12/8/2009 4:30am)

    So, I have a little over 137K points. I also have rakeback. I have played a few of those 1800 point sngs for $26 tokens with good success. Do those tournies take away from rakeback?

    What's the best use of my points?
  2. wackyJaxon wackyJaxon is offline Admin X

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    Dec 8th, 2009 (12/8/2009 5:23am) in reply to mflippy

    Every use of a FTP point counts against Rakeback. It counts $0.005 (1/2 penny) per point against your gross rake accumulated. Assuming you are getting 27% rakeback, each point would count $0.00135 per point. Entering an 1800 fpp sng would count deduct $2.43 against the rakeback you already earned. Still a good use to enter these considering your buy-in would be about $2.43 to win $26 in a 1 out of 3 assuming you are about the same level as other players. When buying things in the FTP store, use the calculations above to see if its worthwhile.
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  3. wackyJaxon wackyJaxon is offline Admin X

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    Dec 8th, 2009 (12/8/2009 5:25am) in reply to wackyJaxon

    Also noteworthy is that you can use FTP points to enter FTOP, MiniFTOPs (running next 2 weeks), and the weekly double duece.
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  4. Chazley Chazley is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2009 (12/8/2009 7:03am) in reply to wackyJaxon

    Sell your points. $3.50/1000ftp.
  5. Duffy08 Duffy08 is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2009 (12/8/2009 7:43am) in reply to Chazley

     
    Originally Posted by Chazley View Post

    Sell your points. $3.50/1000ftp.

    does selling points count against rakeback?
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  6. Autolobotomist Autolobotomist is online now playing air is my style? so what

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    Dec 8th, 2009 (12/8/2009 8:07am) in reply to wackyJaxon

     
    Originally Posted by wackyJaxon View Post

    Every use of a FTP point counts against <a href='http://rakeback.pocketfives.com' target='blank'>Rakeback</a>. It counts $0.005 (1/2 penny) per point against your gross rake accumulated. Assuming you are getting 27% rakeback, each point would count $0.00135 per point. Entering an 1800 fpp sng would count deduct $2.43 against the rakeback you already earned. Still a good use to enter these considering your buy-in would be about $2.43 to win $26 in a 1 out of 3 assuming you are about the same level as other players. When buying things in the FTP store, use the calculations above to see if its worthwhile.

    It's worse than that. The total prizepool is deducted from only those players who have affiliate accounts. If you're the only guy in the SNG with rakeback you have the entire thing deducted from your MGR.
  7. DEApoker87 DEApoker87 is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2009 (12/8/2009 8:09am) in reply to Duffy08

     
    Originally Posted by Duffy08 View Post

    does selling points count against <a href='http://rakeback.pocketfives.com' target='blank'>rakeback</a>?

    Yeah it does because the only way to sell them (as far as I know) is by purchasing something from the store and having it shipped to whoever is buying them from you. There's a thread on "the other" forum where you can do this.
  8. litlebullet litlebullet is offline

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    Dec 8th, 2009 (12/8/2009 10:33pm) in reply to mflippy

    I think you should just keep playing the token sngs.
  9. Chazley Chazley is offline

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    Dec 9th, 2009 (12/9/2009 3:30am) in reply to Duffy08

     
    Originally Posted by Duffy08 View Post

    does selling points count against <a href='http://rakeback.pocketfives.com' target='blank'>rakeback</a>?

    It's like 1.10/1000ftp, somewhere around there, that deducts from your rakeback. Using points on anything other than tokens affects your rakeback anyway tho, so selling them is the best option.
  10. Howdoiplayxx Howdoiplayxx is offline

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    Dec 9th, 2009 (12/9/2009 3:51am) in reply to Chazley

    so its .00135 x "Xpts" is your rakeback that you will get taken away?

    so you get .00135 x 1800 pts =2.43 then you'd multiple that by 73% to get what you'd have to "earn" in total rakeback? or no?
     
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