Quote Originally Posted by billyjustin View Post
and this is not true. if you fold preflop, you are still involved with the hand since you were dealt into the hand. the rake that comes out and the points are given to all players that were dealt a hand, played or not.
You only get pts for rake that YOU put in, rake doesn't get divided among all who started the hand, used to be that way. This is from carbon's site:

Ring Games: Earn 10 VIP points for every $1 of rake contributed to the raked pot. Fractional points are also awarded; so if a player contributed $0.75 in rake, the player would receive 7.5 points.

For example: There are three players in a hand (blinds $1/$2), the SB, BB and the Dealer. Dealer calls $2, SB folds, BB Checks (total pot $5). If no further bets were made, then the total rake taken would be $0.25. Both the BB and Dealer contributed $0.10 each, and would receive 1 VIP points each. Whereas, the SB contributed $0.05 to rake and would receive 0.5 VIP Points.

So SB only gets pts for what he contributed not share of total rake. So if you put no rake in , you get no pts. According to their website anyway.