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 The Advantages of Rakeback
Having a rakeback account will make you so much money in the long term, so much so that there really aren’t any excuses to not be playing with one. One of the main reasons that most player aren’t aware of rakeback is because affiliates and poker rooms don’t want to give it away unnecessarily. With a rakeback account, the poker room rewards the player by giving him/her a certain percentage of his rake back into his cashier (e.g. 27%) which means in the end the poker room makes less money. But the reason they give this player his rakeback is to keep him happy and provide an incentive to keep playing there. Professional/regular online poker players who multi-table 4+ tables at the higher limits generate huge amounts of rake, hence the poker room are happy to give him some rakeback to keep him happy. Newer poker player on the other hand are less savvy or picky about rakeback so they don’t both introducing and offering it to them. Advantages of Playing on a Rakeback Account
• Additional Profits: Receiving rakeback can more or less double
your current profits , or at the very least increase them by 50%.
Imagine if you’re a mid-stakes $1/$2 player who multi-tables 4 tables at
a time. With a 5bb/hr win-rate (very good) you’ll make around $30,000
per year. However with rakeback you will make an additional $1,160 per
month or $14,000 per year.
• It’s Free: Signing up for a rakeback account is free and
doesn’t cost you a thing. There are no conditions (such as raking a
certain amount each month) and there are no limitations to how much you
can make. The only downside to a rakeback account is that you’ll need
to open an account at a new poker room to receive rakeback, since you
cannot “upgrade” an existing regular account to receive rakeback.
• Life-Long Bonus: When you sign up with rakeback, you receive
rakeback for the rest of your life. Regardless of whether you keep
playing or not, any time spent generating rake at the poker room will
contribute towards your rakeback. In many ways receive rakeback is a
bit like a life-long rolling bonus: the more games and volume that you
play, the more rakeback you receive.
• Move up the Stakes Faster: Anyone playing poker for money
should be looking to move up the stakes as quickly as possible.
Receiving rakeback means that you can build up a bankroll faster and
move up the stakes quicker.
• Reduce Variance and Downswings: Rakeback helps to offset the
impact of variance and downswings. For example, if you play 100x $50+5
buy-in MTTs and fail to secure a single payout, then you’ll receive $150
in rakeback with a 30% rakeback account. With 40% rakeback you’ll
receive even more.
• You Can Break-Even and Still Make Profit: Because rakeback is
linked to the amount of rake that you generate and the pots that you’re
involved in - not the amount that you win, you can still make massive
profits in online poker just by sitting at the table and breaking even.
Although this isn’t the best strategy for making money in online poker
it’s still a great feature for new players who are still trying to
achieve a substantial win-rate in the low stakes games.
• You Can Cashout Your Rakeback Instantly: Unlike certain rolling
or instant bonuses, rakeback is paid into your account regularly and
doesn’t have any conditions. This means that you withdraw it
immediately and do what you want with it.  |
