Joined: Jan '11
Location: United States
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Don't mean to sound ignorant here, but I really don't understand what Rake means. Could the Mobsters explain this to me or give some direction as to where I could read about Rake Bonuses, No Deposit Bonus, etc. I've been playing for about one year and there's so much terminology I don't thoroughly understand. Thanks and Good Luck to All!
Joined: Jan '11
Location: United States
Age: 62 (M)
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Thanks a lot SuperNoo! This is an excellent piece of information and a big credit to the author, Mr. doz01. Clears up a lot and it's now part of my poker folder. Mobsters are Great!
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Australia
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Here's a thread I did a while back on the subject.. It's not an explanation of rake - rather a discussion on the idea of Gross (before rake) profit/loss and Net (after rake profit/loss) and just how significant this is. Also touching on the importance of reload bonuses, promos and rakeback
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
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Hi. So, rake is the amount of money that the online poker room wins at a tourney or a table. In a tourney, the rake is the separate amount you pay to register (i.e. a $5+$0.50 buy-in tourney, in which the $0.50 is the profit from you directly to the company). In a ring table, the rake is generated according to the amount of money that is bet in each hand. The higher the bets, the bigger the rake. And there’s other thing I believe you want to know, which is rakeback. Rakeback is the amount of rake that a player can recover from a poker site just for playing there. The company defines a certain % of the money that a player puts on the tables to give it back again to the player, either he had won or lost when he bet that money.
