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Take the Rake Back

When you play poker online, it’s imperative that you take advantage of every promo that’s available to you. Since the Internet poker market is so competitive, online poker rooms and affiliate sites need to offer extra incentives to attract new players. One promo that’s becoming more and more popular is rakeback.

What’s Rake?
Think of the rake as a poker table tax. If you sit down at a table and play poker for money, you’ll always have to pay this rake tax. The rake is the fee that the poker room charges for hosting the poker action. They take this tax out of every pot. In brick-and-mortar poker rooms, the rake can be as high as 10 percent. In online poker rooms, the rake is about half that much, and it is usually capped at around $3 or $5.

The rake is how poker rooms make money. Land-based poker rooms have to pay for all of their overhead costs (rent, electricity, fancy tables, skilled dealers, beverages and so forth). In virtual poker rooms, the overhead is much lower, so the rake is also considerably lower. If there were no rake at all, poker rooms would lose money because you do not play poker against the house. There is no way for the house to win unless they shave a percentage off from every pot.

Take the Rake Back

If you want to see a return on your table taxes, then you need to sign up for a rakeback program. To do this, you will have to visit an affiliate poker site. Online poker rooms don’t openly advertise their rakeback programs, and some poker rooms are against rakeback altogether. Rake is the main source of revenue for poker rooms, so they do not have any incentive to market these revenue rebates to new players. Poker affiliates are a different story. Theses sites exist solely to drive traffic to poker rooms. Poker rooms will pay affiliates a referral fee for the influx of new accounts that the affiliate brings in. This fee is based on the net rake that each new player generates in the poker room.

If you want to take advantage of the best rakeback offers, then you need to sign up for a poker room through an affiliate site. By using the affiliate’s link to download and install new poker room software, your online poker room account will be directly connected to the affiliate site. Like bonuses, rakeback deals are designed to attract new players. If you for example want to get
Cake rakeback, you can’t have an existing account with Cake Poker. You will need to join a new poker room in order to be eligible for rakeback offers.

Make sure you read the terms of the rakeback deal before you accept it. Don’t forget to read up on the poker room that you’re considering as well. If you can find a poker room that you like and an affiliate rakeback offer with favorable terms, you’ll be in good shape. Just remember to follow the sign up instructions carefully so that your poker room account is linked directly to the affiliate site that’s offering the rakeback plan.



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xs4
2008-08-06 03:26

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Thanks for posting such a nice article.
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