What is Poker Rakeback ?

April 8, 2008

First of all what is Rake - It’s a commission fee charged by poker rooms for organizing the games. In poker, a player plays against another human player/s and not against the house. And the winner gets all and the loser none. So the poker rooms, for making money, takes a rake from every game/pot. Basically the word rake comes from the game of roulette where a rake is used to pull the chips from losers.

This rake depends on the poker room but it is around 5% of the pot or can be 1 cent to $5. The tournament fees are also considered as rake. Thus it’s a loss to the poker players.

But the Rakeback site gives you a refund of this rake which you paid to the poker room. They have tied-up/affiliated with their networked poker rooms and they get revenue from bringing the poker players to these rooms. From this revenue, Rakeback pays you around 30% rake-fee back. Thus a win-win deal for all.

The rakeback includes top poker rooms like 888, betfair, littlewood, Matins etc. So if you want to take advantage of this Rakeback, Just register with the site, signup to their rakeback poker rook and fill the rebate form.

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