# FAQ / Troubleshooting

<mark style="color:orange;">**I minted $RAF but Jackpot ETH keeps being 0.00. Where is my ETH going?**</mark>\ <mark style="color:purple;">**Quick answer:**</mark> ETH from $RAF minting gets distributed to the pools once lottery opens.\ <mark style="color:purple;">**Long answer:**</mark> Before the next lottery opens up, the house can set up lottery variations, e.g. <mark style="color:yellow;">Magic Number</mark>, min. participants, <mark style="color:yellow;">Repechage</mark> rules, lottery mode (<mark style="color:yellow;">SuperJackpot</mark> vs <mark style="color:yellow;">SuperLuck</mark>), etc.\
The gas expense for the final lottery draw vill vary depending on these params. An internal algorythm tries to optimize the percentage of ETH to be saved as *<mark style="color:yellow;">gas refund</mark>* for the user that will trigger the lottery draw function. This % is known only once the lottery params are officially set, which means on lottery opening. After lottery opening, no more variations can be made. So, when lottery opens, a fair % of ETH gets removed from the available budget, and the remaining amount gets distributed to the Jackpot and the other entities defined in the [tokenomics](https://dave-davinci.gitbook.io/raffle/tokenomics).<br>