I'm not going to get in to this further because I don't think it really pertains to the topic. But I'm quite familiar with the poker affiliate market, as I've been involved in it for the last 4 years. Most of your paragraph 1 is accurate, although the last part is not (affiliates cannot 'incentivize' how they like. FT caps all RB that can be proffered to 27%; pokerstars does not permit any cash incentives at all, etc). Most networks these days offer RB in-house or what can be offered is fixed; FT will put players on to one specific RB provider if they request it (and don't have a prior arrangement with another affiliate). The margins these days for affiliates is very thin, normally taking 1-3% with the rest kicked back to the player.

but we are getting way off-topic. I was correcting the original comment above about what the definition of rakeback was.