A lot of poker players who play online are not familiar with poker rakeback. Not being aware of this concept leaves a lot of their money on the table.

A lot of poker players who play online are not familiar with poker rakeback. Not being aware of this concept leaves a lot of their money on the table.

Through an affiliate, the online poker room actually refunds money to the player in the form of a rakeback, like a rebate.

An affiliate, you see, is often paid by the poker room when they send a customer to that online poker site. As you play more, the more commission the affiliate receives.

As a way of making a profit from running the room, the rake is the portion that the house will keep from each pot. Because the affiliate receives a commission when you play in a particular room, it is in his best interest to give you an incentive to play their.

These rakebacks can vary quite a bit, from one poker room and affiliate to the next, but will range between twenty and fifty percent of the total rake.

That incentive is what the rakeback is all about. So, as you play more, the more the rake increases. The more commission the affiliate collects, the more he is willing to give you to induce you to play.

The various rooms and different affiliates will calculate the rate of return in different ways. Below is an example of a common rakeback setup.

Say for example, a poker hand pulls in a 100 dollar pot. The room would hold back 5 of that as its share, or rake.

This would amount to 50 cents per player at a typical table with ten people. Assuming a typical rakeback of 30 percent, this comes out to fifteen cents for each person.

Fifteen cents is not a lot of money by itself, but remember that a lot of tables might see a hundred hands every hour. If you use these figures as a possible average, it makes it an hourly rate of 15 dollars.

There is no cost involved and also no disadvantage to taking a poker rakeback. Every poker player owes it to himself to learn more about this program.