The "bet" is how many points you pay, these points are put in the "pot".

A game can end in one of three ways:
1. Draw. If this happens, all surviving players split the "pot" equally, taking home their new share of the loot
2. Cancel. If this happens, players receive their "bet" back, and the server pretends like the game never happened.
3. Solo. There are two possibilities for this, depending on the scoring.
WTA: the winner takes all the points in the "pot"
PPSC: the points are split up among the surviving players, based on the amount
of centers they control.

That is how D-points work.

V-points? I got no idea.....
And you'd be lucky to find someone who did. (admins included, it looks super complicated).

(that last bit about admins was a joke by the way. I'm sure they know what they're doing)

Ah, ty! The pot makes more sense now.

Another good question is why do I lose vPoints, when I win!?
https://vdiplomacy.com/hof.php?userID=12807 Look at games 39110 and 39187. I've lost 93 rating, while I won both.

@JohnyD That must surely be a bug.

According to the following pages, you won 7 points in each game. This is pretty standard for winning a 1v1 game. In game 39110 it says for example that you went from a rating of 1084 to a rating of 1091.
https://vdiplomacy.net/hof.php?gameID=39110
https://vdiplomacy.net/hof.php?gameID=39187

However, according to the page you showed, you lost 54 and 39 points respectively. Those numbers don't make any sense. For game 39110 it says for example that you went from a rating of 1084 to a rating of 1030.

Sometimes the bug favored you, though. For instance, according to the following link, you should have lost 7 points in this game.
https://vdiplomacy.net/hof.php?gameID=39249
However, according to your link, you won 46 points.

I'd make a bug report in the ModForum (top right).

Yes, that was a bug. The rating is now corrected.

Regarding the original topic. A less documented feature of the Rinascimento variant is that it is not regarded / considered as unrated in the vPoint rating. The reason for this is the unbalance of the variant and the impossibility to apply the special algorithm for the D point calculation that is described on the variant page to the vPoint rating.