What is Rakeback?

Rake is how poker rooms make money

Rake is the commission fee charged by poker rooms from players. Poker is a unique casino game in the respect that players do not play against the house, but against other players. The best hand wins the pot and money always goes to the winning player, so in order to make money the poker room takes rake from every hand played. The word rake comes from roulette, where the operator uses a rake to pull in chips that players lose.

The proportion of rake taken from the pot is roughly 5%. Depending from the stakes this amount can be anywhere from one cent to five dollars.

Besides rake taken from cash game pots, the tournament fees that poker rooms charge are also considered to be rake.

Rakeback is a refund of your rake

In effect rakeback is a refund of the rake that you have already paid to a poker room. Rakeback Ltd has signed a contract with each of our supported poker rooms, which entitles us to a share of the revenue that you generate to the poker room while you play and pay rake. Your rakeback is paid out from this commission, according to the rakeback deal that you make with us.

The usual amount of rakeback is 30% of your rake. Please use our rakeback calculator to estimate how much rake you are currently paying and how much rakeback you could earn.

How your rake is calculated

Poker rooms do not tell you how much rake you pay; you only see the total amount of rake taken out from each pot. For accounting purposes your individual rake contribution is however recorded, and rakeback is based on these calculations. There are two main ways that poker rooms use to calculate your individual rake contribution: shared and contributed.

In the shared method, rake is divided evenly among all players that were dealt cards. For example if there are ten players and the rake is $1, each player would be assigned 10 cents of rake. Player does not have to put money to the pot to get assigned rake, and it does not matter if you fold pre-flop.

In the contributed method, players must contribute money to the pot to get assigned rake. The rake a player gets credited with is proportionate to the amount of his/her pot contribution. If you were to contribute $50 to a pot of $150 and the rake taken from that pot was $3, you would get credited with $1 rake.

How to get rakeback?

In order to get rakeback you need to be a member of Rakeback.com, and submit a rakeback application to one of our supported rakeback poker rooms.

Get rakeback by following these steps:

1. Create new account to Rakeback.
2. Submit rakeback application to any poker room from the Poker Rakeback page.
3. Our full time support will verify your rakeback application and send you a confirmation email.