How Much More Money Can You Make With Rakeback?

You can make a ton more money by playing with a rakeback account in online poker. In fact, you can make so much more than a regular poker player that you’d have to be an idiot not to be using rakeback if you’re playing more than 5 hours per week on average. The extra amount that you can make by rakeback, even if you’re only a low volume micro-stakes player is ridiculous. If you’re reading this and currently play more than 5 hours of online poker per week and you don’t have an account than you should seriously consider signing up for one now.

Below I’m going to provide some examples of how much more money you can make with a rakeback account depending on what sort of player you are, your limits and how often you play. I have used a rakeback calculator to work out how much rakeback you would earn per day, month and year at your current volume and stakes in NL 6-max ring games.

Casual Micro-Stakes Player

If you’re a casual player, like I used to be when I first started out playing online poker a few years ago, than you’re probably only playing 12 hours per week (less than 2 hours per day). On the micro-stakes $0.25/$0.50 tables, playing 12 hours on two tables simulatenously will earn you $5 per day in rakeback.

If we take this further, that equates to around $130 per month or $1,500 per year. This is a massive amount for any casual player. Even if you are making 4bb/hr in these stakes, which is pretty decent, you will still owning be making $200 profit per month, thus the extra $120 per month that comes from rakeback will increase your profits by more than 60%! Unless you’re stupid, you cannot afford to be leaving this much money on the table, especially when you’re just starting out and trying to build a bankroll.

Semi Pro Low-Stakes Player

Low stakes game tend to be anything upwards from $1/$2 (NL100). This is where the game tends to get a lot tougher since a lot of these player can be making up to $30,000 in online poker, as such they are generally seen as regulars but might not make as much as a true professional player in the mid-stakes games.

A semi pro who plays 30 hours per week at $1/$2 multi-tabling on 4 tables simultaneously will make around $42 per day in rakeback, $1,160 per month or $14,000 per year. This is a massive amount for any player and will again add around 50% profit to a low-stakes player’s current monthly winnings.

Professional Mid-Stakes Player

Professionals are those players that can make a living from online poker, and the majority of them are in the mid-stakes $3/$6 games. Above this, you get your nosebleed players in the $10/$20 stakes like Gus Hansen and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan.

A professional $3/$6 poker player who spends 40 hours per week multi-tabling 10 tables (this could easily be more) will make $278 per day in rakeback, $7,500 per month or around $90,000 per year. This is a massive amount of money and there are even some professional poker players at PokerStars who qualify for Super Nova Elite, which is a type of rakeback, that don’t even make any actual profit in the games that they play, they merely break even and make all of their profits from their Super Nova Elite status and all the free tournament entries and perks that come with this status.