Every time you play poker for real money, the poker room takes a small cut of every cash game pot or a small fee from every tournament you play. This is how poker rooms make their money.

Rakeback is simply where you receive a percentage of this rake back to your account at the end of the month (or more frequently), instead of having the poker room keep 100% of this rake.

If you play at a poker room with rakeback, you can generally expect to receive between 27% and 33% of the rake you pay back in to your account.

The rake is how poker sites make money

To fully understand the meaning of such a term, you must first understand what the rake is. The rake is the way online poker rooms make their money, by collecting a percentage of every pot from every hand that was dealt. The percentage is not the same for all sites, but its value is somewhere in the vicinity of 5%. It does not sound like very much, but if you consider the ever increasing popularity of this online game and the number of players involved, the total number of hands dealt reaches enormous proportions.

Now think about how much 5% of all the hands dealt in a week means. You will see that 5% is not such a small figure and the margins made by the gambling rooms are not just lunch money.

Use an affiliate to get some of this poker money back

A way to start getting some money back from the rake you pay is by signing up through an affiliate. The affiliate keeps track of the rake you pay at every pot you have played. At the end of the month the poker room pays the affiliate a percentage of your rake.

Affiliate sites have found a way to attract more players to sign up to different poker rooms through them by giving some of the money they receive from the poker rooms back to the players. This is what rakeback is all about, a way in which both parties involved wins. The affiliate gains more players through the rakeback deals they offer, and the players get some of their money back from each pot.

Even losing poker players wins their rake back The importance of this procedure comes from the fact that each and every player, even the winner, loses the rake. Most players don’t even notice they are being charged for every hand or don’t think too much of it even if they do notice it. But why let the house get all the benefits? One of the most important aspects of rakeback is that it does not include only winning players, but all players who were involved in that hand.