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Poker club money without the theory: debts, rakeback, the cage, agents and reconciliation. Written from a live ClubGG club that runs on EasyRake.
Bad Beat Jackpot in a ClubGG club: whose money it is and how not to mistake it for profit
The Bad Beat fund is collected from players and belongs to them. Where it gets mixed up with club profit and how to tell something is off.
Read →Player debts in a ClubGG club: why clubs lose money on them
Where lost debts come from, how to tell they no longer add up, and what helps keep them under control.
Read →ClubGG rakeback deals: what clubs give players and agents
How much clubs give back to players, what agents get, how deals are set up and what the club keeps in the end.
Read →How much does it cost to run a ClubGG club
Where the rake goes: rakeback, agents, promos, debts. A club week in numbers and why owners often don't know what they really made.
Read →How to calculate rakeback for each player in a ClubGG club
The rakeback formula, a worked example, why it gets harder as the club grows, and the signs that something is off.
Read →Agent settlement in a ClubGG club: how to work out who owes whom
What the agent owes the club and what the club owes the agent. Four numbers from the export, the formula, a worked example and common mistakes.
Read →The ClubGG club report: what is in it and why it is hard to keep the books from it
What the ClubGG club report contains, why keeping the books from it by hand is hard, and the signs that numbers got lost.
Read →EasyRake now works with agents too
An agent brings players in, takes chips from the club and hands them out to his own people. Now his debt, his players and his cut are counted for you. And both agents and players get their own dashboards.
Read →How ClubGG club owners keep their books, and why the spreadsheet always loses
Every club goes from a notebook to a Google Sheet with four editors. Here is where manual accounting breaks: debts, rakeback and the cage, and what books that balance look like.
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