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.