Rakeback Deals

Rakeback Explained

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:47:58 +0000

Rake is what the house takes as their payment for hosting a poker game. Generally, it is a percentage of the pot in a cash game usually capped at a certain amount. This is how poker sites make money. Rakeback is giving back a percentage of this rake to players as an incentive to get them to play at said site more often. Poker sites vary with their rakeback offers, but almost all of them offer some form of rakeback now.

In the beginning there was no rakeback, and players were sad. Then in 2004 Absolute Poker started offering “rake rebate” through certain affiliates. There was much rejoicing. An immediate success, almost all sites soon followed with some form of rakeback concept. Usually the money is a cut of the affiliate’s fees and to receive rakeback, you had to sign up through the right affiliate. But sites such as Raider Poker made rakeback the main draw for their site by offering it to every player.

The first few affiliates offering rakeback saw a marked increase in the number of signups they got, but lower fees per user. Soon everyone had to offer rakeback to compete for players. The net effect was lower overall fees to affiliates, driving marginal operators out of the business.

Rakeback is here to stay and it is a very good deal for the players, especially high volume cash game players. If you play cash games you really cannot afford to get a rakeback deal and start getting back some of the rake that you pay to the site.

RakebackDeals.info was started to group all the great rakeback deals together so that players could compare them side by side and choose the ones that suited them best. Look over all the great deals and remember, do not download a poker site without checking here and using our link, or you might not get the rakeback you deserve.

Holdem Poker Chat Mini Poker Marathon

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:48:07 +0000

Beginning at 12pm EST on June 22nd, 2008, Holdem Poker Chat will be running a 8 hour Mini Poker Marathon!

This will consist of both freerolls and money-added buyins. Tournaments will occur every hour, on the hour.

We will begin on the #1 online poker site, PokerStars, beginning with a $100 freeroll and ending with a $10 buyin on Cake Poker, with $100 added to the prize pool. Along the way, we will stop at FullTilt, and Reefer Poker! All and all, it will be a wonderful journey, with $800 added to the prize pools!

The Top 20 in each freeroll and the Top 30 in each buyin will receive points.

The leaderboard will consist of $250 up for grabs over the top 5 places.

More details

Betfair Sweetens The Pot

admin — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:18:53 +0000

Betfair has announced that if one of their qualified players reaches the final table of the WSOP Europe, they will receive a sponsorship package for 3 years.

Dubbed the “Threedom Pass,” the package is worth $69,000 for buy-ins at WSOP Europe, and there are 125 qualified Betfair players vying for the prize.

The WSOP Europe main event is expected to attract more than 700 players, so Betfair qualifiers have their work cut out for them.

Cake Poker Rakeback

admin — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:40:18 +0000

We just added rakeback at Cake Poker. Get 33% rakeback and a 100% Deposit bonus up to $500 by visiting Cake Poker and entering Bonus Code: CPRAKE.

More information and details can also be found at our new Cake Poker Rakeback Site.