Joined: Jan '11
Location: Romania
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 167
The 'rake' is the amount the poker room removes from each pot, as a fee, for hosting/offering the poker game. The amount taken from each pot varies by limits, but is generally anywhere from $1-$3 on average per hand.
Joined: Dec '07
Location: Finland
Age: 70 (M)
Posts: 329
my suggestion is that you should only play in a site what offers a decent rakeback. it is really stupid to play without a rakeback cause you are losing so much money in long run. i have found out that the best rakebacks are on ongame.
Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 10090
nice and informative info ...here's a definition of rake- "devils invention to make you go bust quicker than you say eijaflalakodajokudli"...i like to play with friends on stars home games platform- we play for virtual cash, but at the end of the day according to results we pay the real cash to the winners...cheers to no rake
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Germany
Age: 52 (M)
Posts: 2219
For Cashgames, 5% contributed rake of the pot is normally at the low stakes. In SnG´s, some networks like iPoker and Ongame want 20% fee- a lot. Better are networks like entraction, they take 5% fee in SnG´s.
Joined: Dec '11
Location: Macedonia, The former Yugoslav Republic of
Age: 53 (M)
Posts: 107
On Pokerstars they have change the rules for rakeback.VPP earn just players who contributed to pot some amount Policy of rakeback didnt change the MTT and S&goes VPP earnigs
Joined: Jan '11
Location: United States
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 3361
Was asking about this the other week and a fellow Mobster attached this thread to my request. Good information for someone like myself. Printed this one out and put in the folder. Nice thread doz!
...here's a definition of rake- "devils invention to make you go bust quicker than you say eijaflalakodajokudli"...i like to play with friends on stars home games platform- we play for virtual cash, but at the end of the day according to results we pay the real cash to the winners...cheers to no rake 
