What RakeRace Actually Pays Its Players

Affiliate sites are easy to start and easy to abandon, and most of them ask you to take their promises on faith. This page exists so you don't have to. It is the complete record of what our rake races, chases and leaderboards have paid out — how much, to how many people, in which month, at which poker room.

Across the twelve completed months from September 2025 to August 2026, RakeRace paid $348,247 in promotion prizes to 3,315 paid leaderboard places, over 69 separate promotions. That works out to roughly $105 per paid player and about 276 paid places every month. Since the site launched in 2007, cumulative promotion prizes have passed $20 million to more than 50,000 players.

• Prize paid is the figure published on each monthly archive page as "Total prize in [month]". Euro-denominated prizes at Betsson Poker are included at their converted value.

• Paid places is the published "Number of paid seats" — every leaderboard position that met the minimum requirement and was paid. A player who cashes in two different races counts twice, because two prizes were paid.

• September 2026 is still running, so its figures are expected totals, not settled payouts. They will be replaced with the settled numbers when the month closes.

• The autumn 2025 peak is real, not a presentation trick. Between September 2025 and January 2026 we ran weekly RedStar Poker races and the CoinPoker chase alongside the monthly chases. From February 2026 the calendar consolidated to one monthly promotion per partner room, with the BCPoker $1,000 race added in March 2026. Fewer promotions, larger average prize per player.

We have collected our previous promotions into a table with paid places, payouts, and number of partners - all the way back to 2012.

Most of what a comparison site says about itself cannot be checked. A payout record can be. Every figure above traces back to a promotion page that was public before the race started, stayed public while it ran, and is still public now that it has settled — with the leaderboard and the payment structure attached. If a number here looks wrong to you, the source is one click away, and our corrections policy tells you how to tell us.

Ready to take a seat on a current leaderboard? This month's live races and chases are on the promotions page.