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Chili Poker Cash Race

December 20th, 2008

Chili Poker have a lot to offer grinders, on top of a host of promotions they also offer rather a unique monthly rake race. Lets start with the details of these rake races before discussing all the other Chili Poker extras available:

Chili have decided to reward quality over quantity for participation in their monthly rake races. Prizes are awarded to players with the highest win rates over a set number of hands or tournaments, rather than simply just grinding out the most number of hands in any given month.

The cash game prize funds have been divided across two limits: NL50-NL100, and NL200 or greater.

Chili Poker Race Race

Qualification takes just 10,000 raked hands, with more than $7,000 spread over the two leaderboards.

You can also increase your win-rate by playing more and more. Chili give you an extra 0.7 bonus on your calculation of the win-rate for each 10,000 raked hands played – up to a maximum of 3.5 bonus. For example your BB/100 is 2.4 and you have played 25000 raked hands. Your BB/100 will be 3.1 after the bonus.

Chili have not forgotten SitnGo grinders, offering at total prize pool of $3500 shared across 3 limits: from $0.10+$0.02 to $1+$0.2; From $2+$0.20 to $10+$1, and $20+2 and more.

For each SnG Leaderboard, the ranking will be done according to the ROI. After playing a minimum a 40 SnGs your ROI* will be taken into consideration. Additionally, the more you play the more you increase your chances of winning,  players receive an extra 2.5% bonus in the calculation of ROI for every 10 SnGs that are played.

*The ROI is the Return on Investment, or how much you get back for each $ staked. For example, an ROI of 28% means that for every dollar you stake you win $1.28. Chilipoker has made available exclusively for all its players “My Chilistats”, a tool that allows players to follow their winnings, game statistics as well as ROI.
Sign in to your Chilipoker account, and click on Chilistats button to check your figures.

Now that we’ve addressed Chili’s rake races lets discuss the other extras available to players, which include a $600 signup bonus, a monthly cash for FPPs loyalty program, a ukash mastercard to withdraw your winnings, and a bad beat jackpot:


1. Signup Bonus

150% upto $600 for using Moneybookers or Neteller, 100% upto $600 for other deposit methods. The bonus clears at 40 frequent player points (FPPs) per dollar. The bonus is released in one lump sum when the required amount of FPPs has been earned. The bonus expires after 60 days, calculated from the day the deposit was made. FPPs are earned at the rate outlined in the tables below.


2. VIP Club

Players move through the VIP levels from ‘white card’ to ‘ultimate card’ depending on previous months activity (for full details of VIP levels check the promotions tab at the chilipoker website). Upon finishing your signup bonus be sure to email vip-team@chilipoker.co.uk to enroll in their generous ‘points for cash’ loyalty program. We are not at liberty to discuss the specifics of this deal, suffice to say it’s as good as receiving a sign-up bonus in cash, directly to your account for each and every month you continue to play at Chili.

Rake taken White card Bronze card Silver card Steel card Premium card Ultimate card
$0.25-$0.5 1 1 1 1.25 1.25 1.5
$0.51-$1 2 2 2.25 2.5 2.75 3
$1.01-$1.5 3 3 3.25 3.5 4 4.5
$1.51-$2 4 4.25 4.5 5 5.5 6
$2.01-$3 6 6.25 6.5 7 8 9
$3.01-$5 8 8.5 9 10 11 12

In Tournaments and SnG :

$1 fee White card Bronze card Silver card Steel card Premium card Ultimate card
FPP 15 17 20 23 26 30

3. Ukash Mastercard

Ukash Mastercard

Ukash Mastercard

Unique to any online poker room Chili offer loyal players direct access to poker winnings via the ukash mastercard a card can be used for purchases worldowide, at ATMs worldwide and any purchases via the Internet. Chilipoker covers the cost of one ATM withdrawal per month plus all fees associated with the daily purchases with your card.

The card is available to players who have reached VIP Steel, Premium or Ultimate status by requesting via email to support@chilipoker.co.uk. The card will be sent within 3 weeks with a PIN ensuring maximum security, and can be used immediately. There is no limit to the amount players can withdraw, you are allowed to withdraw the entirety of your winnings whenever you like. (For full T&Cs check the chilipoker website).

4. Bad Beat Jackpot

If you have a full house with three aces and two kings or better, and you’re beaten, you get the bad beat jackpot worth up to $500.

1. Cards must have been dealt to at least four players.
2. The hand must make it to the showdown.
3. Both players must use both cards in their hand to make the best possible combination.
4. The losing player must have a full house with 3 aces and a pair of kings or better.
5. Four of a kind must consist of both cards in the player’s hand, and not by 3 community cards (on the table) and 1 card held by the player.
6. A player has a maximum of 48 hours to inform us of the Bad Beat Jackpot
7. Eligible hands must be played in No Limit Hold’em in cash games.
8. There cannot be more than one bad beat jackpot winner per day.
9. The bad beat jackpot prize pool is fixed at $500 when it has been won in total or in part.
10. The player must send the number of the hand played.
11. The jackpot is paid according to the table at which the hand was played: 20% of the prize pool for the $0.10/$0.20 tables, 50% at $1/$2 tables, and 100% of the jackpot at tables over $1/$2.

Check the chilipoker website for full info.

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  1. December 20th, 2008 at 16:45 | #1

    I just stopped by your blog and thought I would say hello. I like your site design. Looking forward to reading more down the road.

  2. December 20th, 2008 at 18:14 | #2

    What are the limits for limit players?

  3. Andrew
    December 30th, 2008 at 11:45 | #3

    Jesse – thanks, we’re busily working behind the scenes right now so should have a lot of content up for when we launch in Jan 2009.

    Hypnotic – good point, it seems the standard chili rake race ignores limit players. We’re working on an exclusive chili rake race where only players who are members of rake-races.net can take part, so stay tuned for more info.

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