For the early years of online poker the poker rooms were keeping the entire rake that they took to pay for there operation expenses plus profits, but over the past several years most poker rooms have started offering rakeback. Rakeback is simply a term used by players and the poker rooms and it means that you get a percent of the rake the poker room takes back. There are always lots of questions that most new players have to new rakeback and I’m going to try and answer them all in this guide.

The reason that poker rooms started offering players rakeback is because they want the players who play in their poker room to stay loyal and not leave for another poker room. In the early years of rakeback a lot of new poker rooms offered it to draw players from the big poker rooms and it worked until some of the bigger rooms started offering rakeback as well. The typical amount that you will be able to get from the poker room varies greatly upon the type of player you are. If you’re a casual poker player then you will be able to find offers from 20-50%, but if you play a lot of poker then you can work out deals with the poker room privately ranging from 50-100+%.

When rakeback first became available players were only able to receive the deals from third party providers, but since then most poker rooms have added there own in-house rakeback system. I would recommend going with the in-house program because then you know for sure that your payment will be paid every time. Payments will vary between poker rooms, but typically you’ll be paid weekly or monthly directly into your account. A select few poker rooms actually pay out rakeback everyday to player accounts and some who don’t would if you’re a volume player.

If you’re signing up a new rakeback account you can still receive a sign-up bonus from the poker room, but you might not receive the full amount or if you do it might be taken off of your rakeback. There are some perks for rakeback players as well which you can take advantage of when you have a rakeback account. Many poker rooms will offer a weekly and monthly leaderboard where the top players will earn cash rewards on top of the amount paid in rake.

Now that you have learnt a little bit about what rakeback is all about the next thing you need to now do is find the poker room you would like to play on. Once you have found the poker room you want to play in you need to ensure that you sign-up for a rakeback account and not a regular account. You will need to contact the poker room support if you’re using an in-house rakeback system or you’ll need to contact the third party provider you want to use in order to get your rakeback account set-up properly. Once your rakeback account is set-up the only thing left to do is play poker and watch the weekly or monthly payments roll into your wallet like clockwork. You never want to leave free poker money on the table, despite not having a no deposit bonus if you go for rakeback, so if you’re an online poker player and you’re not playing with a rakeback account you need to consider making the switch.