The games
Vanilla Poker spreads three cash game variants:
- No-Limit Hold’em (NLH) — the main game, running from micro stakes upward.
- Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) — four hole cards, pot-limit betting.
- 5-Card PLO (PLO5) — five hole cards, bigger equities, bigger pots.
Two jackpots, always on
Both jackpots are live on the tables — there is nothing to opt into.
The Bad Beat Jackpot runs on all NLH, PLO and PLO5 tables. In Hold’em the minimum qualifying hand is aces full of deuces (AAA22) beaten; in PLO it is AAATT and in PLO5 AAAKK. Both hole cards must play and the hand has to reach showdown. When it hits, the losing player takes the largest share, the winner takes second, and everyone dealt into the hand shares the rest.
The MonteCarlo progressive high hand jackpot runs on all No-Limit Hold’em cash tables and pays the player who wins a hand holding a qualifying combination — a full house or better. The reward scales with both the strength of the hand and the stake, from NL5 up to NL500+, and is funded by 5% of the rake from eligible tables.
Rake back, every Monday
Cash game rake feeds Automatic Rakeback. The percentage climbs with the rake you generate across the week, up to 30%, and the cycle runs Monday to Monday — credited automatically at 01:00 UTC when your level resets. Your unpaid rakeback is visible in the cashier throughout the cycle.
Why the tables fill
Vanilla Poker’s cash games are not limited to Vanilla Poker’s own players. The room runs on the WePlay Network, which pools players from several branded rooms into one shared liquidity pool.
In practice that means more seats occupied at more stakes, shorter waits, and games that stay alive outside peak hours.
The games stay worth sitting in
Shared liquidity only helps if the games are worth joining. Bum hunting, hit and running, bots, RTA and collusion are actively policed by the WePlay Security Team, and funds confiscated from ecology abuse are returned to the player community rather than kept as profit.
That work is described in full on the Game Integrity page.