Forgive me for bringing up an old post.

The way I figured the game worked, was that everybody brought their own personal money into the game for the profit or loss for themselves. The way the Family would profit would be through the initial $5K that the players pay to buy themselves into the game. But also I noticed a seperate pot in a which a percentage of the betting pot would be put in. For example, if a $5 grand was up for grabs, maybe a couple of hundred of that goes into a seperate pot which will be Tony's and Uncle Juniors take.