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The Basepoker Races

$1,000 every day, $10,000 every week and $50,000 every month, paid in USDT to the players who earn the most race points at poker and casino. Who gets what, when each race resets, and how to think about it.

At a glance

Daily Race: $1,000 prize pool. Resets every day at 00:00 UTC, which is 01:00 in Berlin in winter and 02:00 in summer. 200 places paid, from $160 for first down to $1 for places 191 to 200.
Weekly Race: $10,000 prize pool. Resets every Sunday at 00:00 UTC. 500 places paid, from $1,300 for first down to $5 for places 491 to 500.
Monthly Race: $50,000 prize pool. Resets on the first of the month at 00:00 UTC. 1,000 places paid, from $5,000 for first down to $9 for places 991 to 1,000.
How you enter: You do not. Every account is in every race, and the points come from poker hands and casino bets alike.
How you are paid: Automatically, in USDT, when the race resets. Nothing to claim.
In a year: 365 daily, 52 weekly and 12 monthly races add up to $1,485,000 in prizes if the pools stay as they are. Our arithmetic, not a promise from Basepoker.

How a race works

A race is a leaderboard with a prize pool and a clock. You earn race points by playing, poker and casino both count, and when the clock runs out the players with the most points are paid from the pool in the order they finished. Then the board empties and the next race starts. There are three of them running at once, so a hand you play at breakfast counts towards the day, the week and the month together.

The Basepoker Daily Race page with the $1,000 prize pool and the countdown to the reset — The Daily Race page, eleven hours before the reset.

The Daily Race leaderboard with the top ten players, their points and prizes from $160 down to $25 — The top ten of the same board: $160 for first, $25 from sixth to tenth, and twenty pages of paid places.

Entry is automatic. There is no ticket, no opt-in and no fee.
The pool is paid in USDT into your balance when the race resets, with nothing to claim.
The standings are live. The race page shows the top ten with their points and prizes; from place 11 down the names and prizes show but the points are masked.
The daily race resets at 00:00 UTC every day, the weekly on Sunday at 00:00 UTC and the monthly on the first of the month. Basepoker shows the time in your own zone; in Berlin that is 01:00 in winter and 02:00 in summer.
The race pages do not say how many points a hand or a bet earns. The standings are the only guide: when we looked, with 18 hours left in the day, the daily leader had 38,270 points, the weekly leader 299,664 and the monthly leader 823,230. The players at the top were ranked Silver and Gold, which are the ranks of players with a lot of volume.

The prize ladders

These are the prizes the three leaderboards show, place by place for the top ten and then the last paid place. The shape is the same in all three: a steep top five, a flat band from sixth to tenth, and a long tail of small prizes that reaches hundreds of players.

From basepoker.com/daily-race, /weekly-race and /monthly-race.
Place	Daily, $1,000	Weekly, $10,000	Monthly, $50,000
1st	$160	$1,300	$5,000
2nd	$100	$900	$3,000
3rd	$60	$600	$2,000
4th	$40	$400	$1,500
5th	$35	$300	$1,000
6th to 10th	$25 each	$120 each	$700 each
11th to 20th	$12 each	shown on the race page	shown on the race page
Last paid places	$1 each, places 191 to 200	$5 each, places 491 to 500	$9 each, places 991 to 1,000
Places paid	200	500	1,000

The Basepoker Weekly Race card with the $10,000 prize pool and the countdown to Sunday's reset — The Weekly Race in the app.

The Basepoker Monthly Race card with the $50,000 prize pool and the countdown to the monthly reset — The Monthly Race in the app.

The pools are stated as $1,000, $10,000 and $50,000. The top ten of the daily race take $520 of the $1,000 and the other 190 places share the rest, which is how a place around 190 is worth a dollar. The weekly and monthly ladders are longer, so the middle places there are worth more than the same place in the daily: a 100th place in the month is paid from a $50,000 pool spread over a thousand players.

What it is worth, and to whom

For the players at the top the races are a second income on top of rakeback. First in the monthly race is $5,000, first in the weekly is $1,300 a week, and the same volume that gets you there also earns 32% rakeback on poker, 15% on casino bets and the rank bonuses. For everyone else the race is a free entry you get for playing the games you were going to play anyway. You cannot buy your way up a leaderboard except by playing more, and playing more than your bankroll allows to chase a race prize is the one way to turn a free bonus into a loss.

Two things to keep in mind. The casino bets count too, and the casino games have a house edge, so a race prize earned at the slots is paid for with the 3.5% those games keep; the edge does not go away because there is a leaderboard. And the pools, the ladders and the reset times are Basepoker's to change; what is on this page is what the race pages said on the day we read them.

Our own use of it is simple: we play the stakes our bankroll allows, we check the daily board now and then, and we count whatever the race pays as part of the rakeback rather than as a target. Our bankroll calculator gives the stake, and the rakeback page explains what the 32% is worth per hundred hands.

Questions

How do the Basepoker races work?

Every poker hand and casino bet earns race points, every account is entered automatically, and when a race resets the players with the most points are paid from the pool in USDT, with nothing to claim. The daily race has a $1,000 pool and 200 paid places, the weekly $10,000 and 500 places, the monthly $50,000 and 1,000 places.

When do the races reset?

The daily race at 00:00 UTC every day, the weekly race on Sunday at 00:00 UTC and the monthly race on the first of the month at 00:00 UTC, which is 01:00 in Berlin in winter and 02:00 in summer.

What does first place pay?

$160 in the daily race, $1,300 in the weekly race and $5,000 in the monthly race, as the leaderboards show them. Sixth to tenth pay $25, $120 and $700, and the last paid places $1, $5 and $9.

How many points does a hand earn?

The race pages do not say. The standings are the only guide: when we looked, with 18 hours left in the day, the daily leader had 38,270 points, the weekly leader 299,664 and the monthly leader 823,230.

Do the races make the casino games worth playing?

No. A race prize earned at the slots is paid for with the 3.5% those games keep, and the edge does not go away because there is a leaderboard. The races are worth most to players who put a lot of volume through the poker tables and would have played anyway.