iPoker network starts raking rebuys and add-ons

The network changed their tournament schedule and their rebuy tournaments without notifying the players.

On Monday, the iPoker network significantly changed their tournament schedule, increasing the number of multi-entry and knockout tournaments, decreasing the number of freezeout tournaments and expanding the number of paying spots in the tournaments.

Some players also noticed after the schedule change that rebuys and add-ons are now raked in the network.

 

The changes were not well received by the community, but the fact that the network failed to issue a press release or send any notification e-mails to their players about the changes is a much bigger issue.

There is absolutely no information in the client about the rake change and the only way players could learn about it is by manually calculating the prize pools after a tournament has finished.

In a €1 rebuy tournament today there were a total of 280 unique entrants and they bought 329 rebuys and 158 add-ons. This created a prize pool of €697,97, which means that every rebuy and add-on had an additional fee of €0,09.

Although the schedule could still be subject to changes, it looks like the monthly guaranteed prize pools will be around €3 million, significantly down from the previous schedule which paid out around €5 million each month.