Big Rakeback

Almost all online poker rooms offer generous sign up bonuses and player rewards to ensure they retain all players, big and small. Rakeback deals are generally only available through a reputable poker affiliate, someone who is paid by poker rooms to refer new players to them. Since the inception of poker affiliates, the industry has changed dramatically. Poker affiliates became more aggressive in their marketing strategies and even started to offer a cut of their payment back to the poker player. This is how rakeback was introduces and its now governed closely by the poker rooms who offer a rakeback scheme. Just like online poker rooms have the policy of deducting a small percentage from the money collected in each pot, they pay a percentage of the rake back to the player through the affiliate who referred them. This means that win or lose, you will always earn extra cash, the more hand you play.

So where does all the money come from to pay the affiliate enough to pay the player, plus offer you a sign up bonus and other incentives. It actually very simple. All poker rooms make their money through taking a small …show more content…
Well the answer is simple, both! In most cases to qualify for your bonus, a player would have to play a certain number of raked hands. As poker players wise up to the ever increasing loyalty bonuses and introductory offers, online poker rooms realize that they need to offer something extra to ensure their players keep playing online poker on their network. This is where rakeback comes in. Different sites have their individual point systems for calculating the rake, but in general you can use a rakeback calculator to estimate how much of the rake you'll get back. To give you an example, if you play $1/$2 table for 3 hours a day with a 30% rake deal, you will earn an estimated $516.00 per month, paid straight into your poker account! The more you play the more money you get