Cash-game poker is one of the few products where 1Win rewards you simply for sitting at the table and playing hands, win or lose. The mechanic is called Rakeback up to 50%, it runs until 01/01/2027, 1:59 am, and it pays out every Monday based on how much rake you've generated over the previous week.
What Rake and Rakeback Actually Mean
Every time a hand reaches the flop at a cash table, the poker room takes a small commission from the pot — that's the rake. At 1Win, this commission is fixed at 5% of the pot per hand, with a floor of $0.01 and a ceiling of $4 per hand, regardless of how large the pot grows beyond that point. Rakeback is simply a partial refund of that commission, paid back to the player who generated it, at a percentage set by their current VIP status.
To make that concrete: a player who generates $80 in rake over a week at the entry-level Player status (15% rakeback) would see $12 credited back the following Monday. That same $80 in rake at Diamond status (50% rakeback) would return $40 — over three times as much, for identical table activity. The rake you pay doesn't change with status; only the share you get refunded does.
The Seven VIP Levels
Every new account starts at Player status automatically, and climbing the ladder is driven entirely by cumulative rake generated at cash tables — there's no separate deposit or turnover requirement layered on top.
| Status | VIP Points Needed | Rakeback |
|---|---|---|
| Player | 0 | 15% |
| Bronze | 200 | 20% |
| Silver | 500 | 25% |
| Gold | 2,000 | 30% |
| Platinum | 3,000 | 35% |
| Elite | 5,000 | 40% |
| Diamond | 10,000+ | 50% |
VIP Points accrue at a straightforward 1:1 rate with rake — every $1 of rake generated adds 1 VIP Point. That means reaching Gold status requires having generated $2,000 in cumulative rake since your last reset, not $2,000 in deposits or stakes wagered; a player grinding $0.05/$0.10 tables will take considerably longer to hit that mark than one playing $1/$2, purely because higher-stakes pots produce more rake per hand even at the same 5% rate.
Reading Your Own Rakeback Balance
The site doesn't leave this to guesswork — the expected rakeback amount for the current week is visible directly in the poker room, under Cash → Status → Unpaid rakeback, updating as you play rather than only appearing after Monday's payout. Checking that figure mid-week is the simplest way to gauge whether a status upgrade is close, since the same rake total that builds your payout is also the number counting toward your next VIP Points threshold.
Status Duration and the September Reset
Once earned, a VIP status holds for a full year from the point it's reached, but there's a fixed calendar reset layered on top: every account's status resets on September 1st, regardless of when in the year that status was originally earned. In practice, this means a player who reaches Diamond in October has roughly eleven months of elevated rakeback before the annual reset brings everyone back down to re-qualify, while a player who reaches the same status in July only holds it for a couple of months before the reset — the calendar date matters as much as the rake total itself.
How This Sits Alongside Typical Poker Rake Structures
A flat 5% rake capped per hand is a fairly standard structure across online poker rooms generally, and tournament formats elsewhere in the industry commonly run a separate, higher flat commission — often cited around 10% of the prize pool — rather than the per-hand cash-game model. What distinguishes 1Win's version isn't the rake itself so much as how much of it comes back: a 50% ceiling at the top VIP tier is a substantially more generous return than the flat, non-tiered rakeback deals many standalone poker rooms offer their entire player base regardless of volume.
Currency Handling
All bets, winnings, and prize money — rakeback included — are converted into your account's local currency, so a player generating rake while playing in one denomination doesn't need to manually convert anything when the Monday payout lands; it arrives already denominated in the currency the account operates in.