Rake back is what the word says , some of the rake , meaning the fee you give to the
online poker operators for tournaments or the cash games or spins , back(usually the rake is 10% for tournaments ,or sth more for tournaments on Stars , for cash games some very low pots are not raked, for the other higher pots , the rake is less than this of the tournaments , and there is a maximum rake for every stake
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The percentage of this rake you take back I believe is between 5% and 10% on Stars , without taking into consideration the extra
freerolls you get as a gift or the spin tickets you also get in the Stars chests . On Bwin or
partypoker the rakeback might be even 40% for the players that play a lot of money , but it's on a weekly base , and it's released after accumulating some rake points for the online poker room , but also they have other promotions , scratch cards , combined promotions with casino games , so more opportunities for you to get rake or money back
On ACR I don't know percentage , but you need to play a lot and accumulate a lot of points to get a lot of rake back . On 888poker the rakeback is in freerolls for your VIP level and tickets , or also bonuses and other freeroll money , so the rakeback might be big if you play well in thesefreerolls , or not much if you are not good . )
The bad thing is that in some sites or for some promotions , you have to opt-in yourself in the rake-back or cash back feature . If someone , like a novice player , doesn't know about this , he might lose a lot of money back especially if he's a new player , who , imo , might start playing a lot of games , so their rakeback will be more . Every week you have to opt in , if you forget you don't get rakeback . As a beginner you have to write the bonus code when you register for extra bonus cashback , or else you won't receive it , or hope the support will show understanding when you emeil them . Stars reward cheests also need opting-in , butthis is done only once , not every week
When I first started on
pokerstars , I didn't kniw about the bonus promotion , learnt it later , emailed support , which activated it and gave me some $10 of extra rakeback for the newcomers , cause as a loose fish , I was playing a lot of cash games then , so the rakeback was more . Also i didn't know about the freerolls (not even some which were for VIP level players such as my chromestar level
), so I was depositing every day with paysafe cards !!!