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Rakeback

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Rakeback is that portion of a rebate passed from an online poker site to its affiliates that makes it back to the player. For example, suppose that you start an account with your favorite site through an affiliate. The site has negotiated compensation with the affiliate for bringing in your business, usually about half the rake that you generate. If you play a 10-handed table with $1 rake taken out, each player generates 10 cents in rake; therefore, the affiliate gets a rebate of 5 cents. (It's not much for one hand, but it really adds up quickly!) In turn the affiliate may have arranged a rakeback arrangement with you, the end user. In this example, if you're getting 25% rakeback, you'd get 2.5 cents.

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[edit] How to find a good rakeback site

  • Pick a large trustworthy site with a large player database.
  • Go on referrals/ word of mouth from friends / other poker players.
  • Browse poker forums for discussions of the best rakeback sites.
  • Find one that offers many different rooms so you can pick and choose one to your liking.
  • Look for sites which have good referral programs.
  • Does the site offer extra promotions like Rake Races and Freerolls?
  • Looks for sites that have won industry awards.
  • Does the site offer daily stats so you can check your rakeback at any time.

[edit] Maximum rakeback available at poker sites

Some poker sites cap the highest amount of rakeback you can earn from them. This is to stop smaller affiliates undercutting the market by offering less rakeback that their larger competitors. This sounds like a good idea for players in the short term, however the affiliates cost of business will eventually make these levels unattainable and many small affiliates proceed to go under as they become victims of their own success without paying their players.

The following are a list of poker rooms and the maximum rakeback they offer:

[edit] Does Party Poker offer rakeback?

Apparently Party Poker now offers a promotion giving a percentage of each raked hand back directly to the player. [1] This seems to differ from the traditional rakeback in that there are no affiliates involved. Most likely Party believes that its sheer size and mammoth marketing operation make affiliate programs redundant. At any rate, it's in the eye of the beholder whether this consitutes "rakeback" or not -- from the player's perspective it's roughly the same as more traditional rakeback arrangements.

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