RakeBack v’s No Deposit Bonus – What’s the best deal for online poker players?

They key to understanding what is the best deal for an online poker player is really to understand how the affiliate model works. Online Poker operators either pay their affiliate a reward for introducing a player with a CPA payment or a revenue share.

A CPA or Cost per Acquisition means the operator pays a one off fee to the affiliate per real money player. A revenue share deal means the operator pays the affiliate a percentage of the revenue the operator earns from each player. Poker room operators make their revenue from the rake players pay on real money games and tournament fees.

Affiliates who have CPA deals in place pay back some sort of one off deposit bonus to their player for each room they sign up to.

Affiliates who offer rakeback are paying player a share in the revenues share they receive from the poker operators.

So if you are an online poker player who pays a lot of rake it is worth do a quick calculation of what the value of the bonus you receive and the potential lifetime earnings you would get through a rakeback deal.

Understanding the Dealt Method of calculating rake for rakeback poker

Poker rooms have to charge a per-pot fee or tournament fee because the house is not involved in any actual hands. Poker players compete against each other, so the house's profits are secured by taking a percentage of each pot.

In online poker rooms, the rake won't be higher than five percent, and this percentage fee will not exceed a few dollars, generally $5 being the max. If you sign up for a rakeback deal, you can get a return on your amount of rake that you generate each month. Different poker rooms have different ways of calculating your net rake. One calculation method is the dealt method used by Betfair Rakeback.

In the dealt rakeback method, every player is considered to share the rake equally. If you are playing at a ten-handed table, you are credited with ten percent of whatever the total rake for that pot ends up being. If $4 is raked, you are credited with 40 cents of rake.

Strong players tend to prefer the dealt method because it does not penalize players who don’t play many pots. Many stronger players tend to be tight before the flop and prefer to play premium hands before getting involved, especially in fixed-limit games. If the site only credited rake to players who were involved in the pot, those who play many pots would get more rake credit and hence, more rakeback.

A rakeback program puts some of that rake money back into your online account. To get rakeback, simply sign-up with a poker room through a rakeback poker site.

Welcome To RakeBack

Hi Everyone,

Just a little intro into the world of rakeback poker!

Rakeback poker has been around for a while now, but surprisingly not that many online poker players actually have a good rakeback deal in place!

I will be detailing all the best rakeback deals over the next few weeks as well as rakeback news and the top rake races out there!

Woo Hoo!

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