What is rake?

If you are playing real money poker on the internet you are also paying rake. That is a fact. It doesn’t matter if you are playing cash games, tournaments, sit n goes, omaha, texas holdem, some other game, headsup, 6 max, 10 max, or some other format. You are paying rake no matter what.

In tournaments rake is the amount the house takes on top of the buyin amount. For an example if a tournament has $50 + $5 buyin the rake which the house ( = the online poker room you are playing at) takes is $5. In cash games rake is the amount the poker room takes from each pot that goes to flop or beyond.

The rake amounts might not seem all that big and you might think that they really don’t make that much of a difference on your results. However, even if you are only playing poker to kill some time it would be silly not to get some of the rake amount returned to you. Right?

What is rakeback?

Well now you can get a nice chunk of the rake returned to you. Almost all the poker rooms are now offering rakeback deals to their customers, the catch is that you must ask for the deal or signup with a special link / code that allows you to get rakeback and VIP cashback (they are pretty much the same only the only difference is the way the payment is calculated, you can find the full details from the NoiQpoker homepage)

EuroPokerPro for an example can offer you 33% rakeback deal at Liipoker. What this means that you get 33% of the rake amount returned to you depending on how much you play. If you are playing just couple hours of lowstakes poker per week you might get 50€ returned to you each month (still a nice amount of “free” money), however we know players who earn more than 3,000€ extra each month thanks to the Rakeback / VIP Cashback deal.

Bottom line:

It would be foolish not to get rakeback / VIP Cashback as it is practically free money. Majority of the poker players who are playing poker to win are already getting rakeback, so don't get left out. Also as an added benefit if you signup for the deal we mentioned above you get to invited to exclusive promotions which offer you even more value.