What is rakeback?
When playing poker online, the poker room will deduct a certain amount from each pot as a charge for their service. This is called rake. On average, the rake in cash games is around 5% of the pot, up to a $3 cap (or €3/£3 depending on the currencies). If you are playing in a tournament, the rake is taken when registering for the tournament.
Because of the very large amount of players and hands played a poker room has, the accumulated rake adds up to a huge amount of money. It is not seldom that a single player contributes with over $2500 in rake every month. Imagine how much this turn out to be on a network with an average of 5000 players online, every second of every day.
Rakeback offers a rebate on the rake poker players pay to the poker room. Simply put, for every dollar a player puts in as rake, the player gets xx% of this back. Normally a rakeback deal ranges between 27 and 40 percent, while some rakeback offers go all the way up to 60%.
Rakeback is normally only possible to get by signing up with the poker room through an affiliate. Pokerhand.org co-operates with RakeRebate.net, which is one of the world's leading rakeback affiliates. By signing up with any of our offers you'll be guaranteed to always get the best deal a room has to offer. In addition RakeRebate themselves run a lot of promotions of their own, to give you even more back on your poker play.
Click here to visit our Rakeback section and find the rakeback deal most suited for you.
Frequently asked questions
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Can US-players sign up for rakeback? |
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Yes. Because of the UIGEA (Unlawful ..) many poker rooms have closed its doors for US-players. There are however still quite a few sites that welcome all players with open arms.
RakeRebate offers rakeback for all major networks open to US-players. These sites include: Full Tilt Poker, Cake Poker, Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet and Pokernordica.
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How do I get paid? |
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Rakeback is usually paid once a month directly to your poker account. Normally, the rakeback is based on your play the previous month and then paid within the first few days the following.
Some sites, however, pays out your rakeback more often, i.e. every day or twice a month. In these cases this will be specified under the details of each of our rakeback offers.
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Can I get rakeback on an existing account? |
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Normally rakeback is only available to players that do not already have an account with the poker room in question.
You are however always welcome to contact us to see if we are able to get your account re-tagged for rakeback. Simply send an e-mail to support@rakerebate.net with your username and poker room, and we will send the request for you.
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