[thegreatwarnzini]

I've been arguing with the someone I believe is the owner of a major affiliate website and runs a large affiliate program. Although his members have not been as cordial, he has not mentioned who I am in public so I will extend him the same courtesy...warranted or not.

I was explaining to him how rake is calculated at most sites, most of you know this, but it blows my mind that someone who runs an affiliate program wouldn't understand this, but...here we stand.First here is the text...cut and pasted directly from the fulltilt affiliate agreement on the FT website.

A Player's contribution to the rakes shall be determined as the quotient obtained when dividing the actual amount of each rake, in hands which such Player was dealt in, divided by the total number of persons playing at the table (“players”) at the start of the hand. By way of example, if the rake in a hand with six players at the table is three dollars ($3.00), each player's contribution to the rake will be fifty cents ($0.50)."

So basically, you don't have to play, you just need cards dealt to you to be counted into the equation. If you fold you are still credited with paying some of the rake. Again, that cut and paste was directly from the FT website, straight from their affiliate agreement.

Now here are a few quotes from this guys postings and emails he has sent me.

Your information on rakeback is completely false and you should not be telling people this. Players at Fulltilt only generate rake if they actually play in the hand. So saying that you can just sit there, post blinds, and get rake back is false.
How in the world could you actually think FullTilt is going to pay... a player just sit at the table.
It just gets annoying when affiliates post stupid claims like this
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for the record, I couldn't put quotes in this post...it changed them during submission process, sorry

I acknowledge, some sites do not operate this way, some use a contributed rake method or a method with a sliding % scale that can change, but my understanding is that FT and a majority of other large sites calculate their rake this way. I would think that someone who runs an affiliate program...I think it's actually one of the largest one's I know of...would be privy to this kind of information.

By all means, if anyone thinks disagrees with the way I interpret FT's method of rake calculation, please prove me wrong. Maybe I would understand why this guy came from left field to slander me in his forums.