subject: Rakeback Increases Your Win Rate at the Poker Tables [print this page] Rakeback Increases Your Win Rate at the Poker Tables
How many poker players who play today can actually say they are a winner over the long run? It is said that only 20% of poker players actually make consistent profits at the poker table. A higher percentage breakeven and the rest actually lose.
So what is the one way that you can actually change from a losing player to a winning player without trying to fine tune your game, with no extra effort what so ever? Well the answer is simple. Rakeback!
Rakeback is the term given to the refund that poker companies make to players for showing loyalty to their company. To understand fully, poker sites survive by taking a small percentage of every pot played. This is called the rake. Rakeback therefore is a percentage of this rake amount which is returned to the player.
Anyone can sign up for a rakeback account. It is free and enables a poker player to greatly increase their win rate. An example of how much money you could make from rakeback alone can be seen using a rakeback calculator from any reputable online Rakeback provider.
According to the calculations if you play just one hour of $1/$2 shorthanded No Limit Holdem a day on a poker site which offers 30% rakeback, you would be paid $2,232.00 a year in rakeback no strings attached. However the advantages of playing online means that you can play between 1 and 24 tables at anyone time. So lets just say for an average person who would play 6 tables at one time, this would mean that the yearly rakeback that they now receive would amount to a massive $13,392.00.
This is an astronomical amount of money when you think about it. If you hadn't signed up to a rakeback provider to avail of rakeback, it would have gone instead to the poker company's end of year already healthy profit margins. It really is a 'no - brainer' for any poker player to have a rakeback account.
