Referral race rules.

01 Free participation and eligibility

No purchase necessary. Nothing has to be bought, paid, deposited or spent to enter or win, and buying anything (Muck Bucks, Muck Club, a game pass or anything else) does not improve your position. New and existing verified, active Muck account holders may join free during the contest period. The contest is open to eligible U.S. residents who are at least 18 years old and have reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence (19 in Alabama and Nebraska, 21 in Mississippi), except where prohibited or restricted by applicable law. Entry is limited to residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. Taking part requires a MuckPoker.net account; MuckPoker.net is not offered in Washington State, so Washington residents can’t create one. Additional eligibility restrictions may apply as stated in these Official Rules. Void where prohibited. One participant per person, per account and per household (everyone living at the same address); if more than one person in a household joins, only the first verified entrant can win. The organizer, people administering the contest, and their immediate family and household members are not eligible for prizes. People previously banned or excluded from Muck Poker or its promotions for harassment, abuse, fraud, threats, cheating, or other violations of Muck Poker’s rules, and anyone whose account is suspended or banned, are not eligible.

02 Start and end

Wednesday, December 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM Eastern Time through, but not including, Friday, January 1, 2027 at 12:00 AM Eastern Time. You can join any time before the deadline, including before the race starts, but only friends who sign up inside the race’s dates count (apart from the head start in rule 6). Friends must sign up before the deadline. Their later sign-in (rule 4) has until Saturday, January 2, 2027 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time, so a friend who joins on the last day still can. Results come out three days after the deadline (rule 7); a referral that doesn’t meet every part of rule 4 when they’re checked doesn’t count.

03 Join and refer

Sign in and accept these rules and eligibility confirmations on the referral contest page before the deadline. Your public player name and count may appear in the standings. Share your personal referral link. Valid referrals attributed to your account anywhere within the contest period count, including those before your contest enrollment. Sharing, clicks and existing-user logins do not count.

04 Valid referrals

A Valid Referral is a genuinely new Muck Poker user who, during the contest period:

1. creates a new Muck Poker account using your referral link or invite;
2. verifies their email address, or signs up with a verified Google or X account (a Google account is verified through the address Google has confirmed; an X account through X’s own sign-in);
3. completes the basic account setup: a player name and a picture;
4. signs back in to Muck Poker at least one more time, on a later visit (this one may come up to Saturday, January 2, 2027 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time; rule 2);
5. has not previously had a Muck Poker account (a visitor’s one-time free-game account that becomes their first full account when they sign up is not a previous account);
6. is not you;
7. is not a duplicate, fake, automated, disposable or fraudulent account; and
8. passes Muck Poker’s reasonable duplicate-account, device, network and fraud-prevention checks.

A referred friend does not need to play poker, play any number of hands, enter a tournament, buy anything, buy Muck Bucks, join Muck Club, make a deposit or spend anything of value. The extra sign-in exists only to show that the referral is a genuine new user, not a one-time or fraudulent signup.

Only one referrer may receive credit for a new account. The account must stay active and pass verification. Shared or duplicate email or X identities do not create additional credit. Multiple accounts. Creating or using more than one account does not create additional entries or Valid Referrals. Any additional accounts are discredited: their entries and referrals don’t count. Doing so may also disqualify you from the contest (including any prize), and may get every account involved suspended or banned from Muck Poker. We record the reason for any referral we remove or any disqualification; if you think we got it wrong, write to the contact in rule 12.

05 Prizes and how to win

The race pays $250 in cash prizes in all, put up by the organizer. The estimated split is $125 for first, $75 for second and $50 for third. The final split, including how many places are paid, will be published in these rules before the race starts on Wednesday, December 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM Eastern Time, and won’t change after that; the $250 total won’t go down. All amounts are in U.S. dollars.

Who wins. This is a leaderboard, not a drawing. One Valid Referral puts you on the leaderboard and makes you eligible for a prize. Entrants rank by the number of Valid Referrals credited to them during the contest period, highest first, and the top eligible referrers win the fixed prizes for the published places. There is no random drawing, no lottery, and no extra entries or better odds for referring more people: more Valid Referrals simply means a higher place. One referral race prize per person and per household.

Ties go to the entrant who reached the tied total first: the one whose last counted Valid Referral signed up first, by the server’s signup time. If those times match (for example, the same second), the earlier referral record wins; if still identical, the earlier contest enrollment, then the lower permanent account ID. Ties are never decided by a random drawing.

If fewer entrants qualify than there are paid places, the full $250 is still paid out among those who do (under the estimated split: one qualifier wins all $250; two receive $155 and $95).

06 November head start

MuckPoker.net is invite-only until the race starts. Each member may invite one person by their X account, and gets one more invite each time an invited person joins, up to three invites in all. A member starts the race with one valid referral already counted for each of their invites taken up before Wednesday, December 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM Eastern Time (the invited person made their account with it, and it is still active and not banned), up to three. It is counted once they join the race (rule 3) and is subject to the same verification as any referral (rule 4). Administrators of MuckPoker.net do not receive it. There is no separate signup drawing.

07 Verification, notification and claims

Standings are provisional until verification. Results come out automatically three days after the contest deadline, when the top three are notified; referrals shown to be invalid before then are removed, and results stay subject to verification. Each winner’s eligibility and referrals are verified when they claim; a winner who fails verification forfeits the prize. Winners are notified by email when their account has one (sent to the address on the Google account they signed up with), and always by a notice on their Muck account, shown on every page while they’re signed in; the organizer keeps a record of each notice sent. Winners must sign back in to the Muck account that won and claim the prize on the referral contest page within 30 days of the initial notification. Only that account can claim it, and only while signed in. Replying to an email or contacting the organizer does not claim a prize. No presence at an event is required. A prize not claimed in the winning account within its 30-day claim period is forfeited, and no replacement winner will be selected, except where required by law. A prize forfeited by a winner who fails verification or is disqualified goes to the next eligible referrer in the standings who hasn’t won one; they’re notified the same way and have their own 30 days to claim. Prizes do not roll over into other promotions. Paid by PayPal or Venmo within 30 days after we verify you. Payment requires claiming the prize in the winning Muck account within its 30-day claim period and passing eligibility verification. No fee or purchase is required to claim. Prizes may be taxable even if no tax form is issued. Winners are responsible for applicable taxes and any legally required payment information.

08 Sharing disclosure

Because you can win a prize from referrals, say so clearly whenever you share your link or invite in public. For example: “I can earn referral rewards if you join.” Any wording that makes the relationship clear is fine. Do not promise anyone a win or ask anyone to buy anything. Follow the platform’s rules. X does not sponsor, endorse or administer this promotion.

09 Fraud and manipulation

The organizer may investigate any suspected manipulation of the referral program and may remove invalid referrals, adjust leaderboard totals, disqualify participants, withhold prizes, suspend or close accounts, and give an affected prize to the next eligible participant where appropriate. Prohibited: self-referrals; duplicate, fake or bot-created accounts; automated registrations; fabricated identities; farming disposable accounts; coordinated account creation; manipulating devices or networks; getting around referral limits or fraud checks; collusion to move the standings; and anything else the organizer reasonably determines undermines the promotion. To check referrals, the organizer reviews account, browser, device and network signals and activity; how those checks work is not published, so they can’t be gamed. The organizer keeps the records behind each decision (account times, verification status, sign-in activity, device and network signals and other fraud indicators) to resolve disputes.

10 Changes, cancellation and liability

If fraud, a technical failure, a force majeure event or anything else outside the organizer’s reasonable control materially impairs the promotion, the organizer may modify, suspend or cancel it, and, where the law allows, award the prizes from the Valid Referrals credited before the problem. The organizer is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete or misattributed signups or referrals, or for technical failures of any kind, except to the extent caused by its own negligence or misconduct. To the extent the law allows, by taking part you release the organizer and the people administering the promotion from claims arising from your participation or a prize; nothing here limits rights that the law doesn’t allow to be limited.

11 Privacy and data use

To run the contest, the organizer uses your account details, your referral records and their times, verification status, sign-in activity, and browser, device and network signals (kept as one-way codes rather than the details themselves), and for winners, what’s needed to verify eligibility and pay the prize. Your public player name and referral count may appear in the standings. This information is used only to administer the promotion, prevent fraud and meet legal obligations, and is kept as long as reasonably needed for those purposes and to resolve disputes.

12 Organizer and contact

Organizer: The promotion is offered through MuckPoker.net and publicly administered by Ray Zorfold / @rayzorfold. Questions and disputes: contest [at] muckpoker [dot] net. Account information is handled under the site terms and privacy policy. Published contest rules govern these cash awards; ordinary Muck Bucks have no cash value. These rules and the promotion are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except where the law of the entrant’s state requires otherwise.