What is rake?

Rake is a percentage that goes to the house (poker room) from every pot for the provision of its services. The average rate is like 3-5% but no more than $3(depending on your playing limit). Rake is invisible for most players but over time it has a big influence on your profit. If you play without rakeback, you lose a decent amount of money which entirely goes directly to a poker room, instead of your pocket.

What is rakeback?

Rakeback is a refund to players. They receive a percentage of the rake they pay to poker room. Rakeback percentage rate may vary, because different poker rooms offer different rakeback deals.

Our company is interested in your getting the highest level of benefits around the Net’s rakeback service, and that’s why we try to provide best conditions for you to receive your rakeback by negotiating with world’s most trusted poker rooms and setting up the easiest and most comfortable rakeback service.

No matter what limit you play. Whether you are a beginner or a pro, receiving rakeback will definitely boost your income and maximize profit out of your game.

What is winrate?

Winrate is a deemed amount of your potential income from poker on a distance. In fixed limit games it is calculated in Big Bets and in no limit – in Big Blinds. Winrate is determined in ratio BB/100 which means Big Bets(Blinds)/100 where 100 is amount of played hands. For no limit games you can meet the definition as PTBB/100 where evaluation is performed as 2*Big Blinds/100. Pt is actually a Poker Tracker which is a program for collecting and analyzing statistics which has introduced this method of winrate assessment.

Calculation of your winrate is quite simple.
Total money winnings are divided by the number of played hands, divided by 100 and divided by the value of a big bet (blind) of the limit.

For example:

You have player 10 000 hands on your working limit $0.5/$1 and won $600. In this case, your winrate amount is $600(10 000/100)/$1 = 6BB/100. This is a very good result.

You also need to know that winrate can be negative. If you lose these $600, your winrate value will be -6BB/100.

Playing poker with rakeback, you substantially increase your winrate through your generated gross rake, part of which is brought back to you by the mean of rakebacking. Consequently, when calculating for winrate, you should also consider your received rakeback.

What is MGR?

MGR is an abbreviation of Monthly Gross Rake. In fact, this is the amount of rake that player pays per month. Players receive rakeback, based on that amount. Depending on a poker room, different bonuses can be deducted from this sum on a monthly basis as well.

What is the difference between Dealt and Contributed rake systems?

In Dealt system, all money that went in rake after dealing cards, are divided equally among players who were dealt cards.

Example: If 5 players were dealt cards, and the pot was $5, then each player got charged for $1 in rake.

In Contributed rake system only the rake that you pay yourself is taken. This means that if you want to generate rake, you need to invest money in pot voluntarily, either be on the Big Blind, or play a hand.

Dealt system is considered to be of a more advantage, because it brings and average 30% more income than the Contributed.

When and how will I receive my rakeback?

Different poker rooms pay rakeback differently. Generally, payments are processed once a month. iRakeBack.net completes all payments till 15th day of every month. There are also poker rooms that pay rakeback daily, automatically on player’s account. For more information about rooms with automatic payments, please check our Rakeback Deals.

How do I start receiving rakeback?

In order to begin using our service and receive rakeback, you will need to:

1. Sign up new account on iRakeBack.net. Siun up »

2. Select the desired poker room from our list of RakeBack Deals.

3. Follow the detailed instruction upon registration in specific poker room.

After this, you will have the ability to track your stats in real time, participate in our exclusive promotions available only to our clients (rake races, rake chases, freerolls, etc.), receive bonuses, and much more.

How can I know my generated rake and my rakeback?

Statistics on rakeback is updated daily in the morning. Sometimes some poker rooms may delay rakeback reports, but they usually do not last more than a couple of days.

Can I receive rakeback through iRakeBack.net if I’m already registered in a poker room?

In most cases this cannot be done. This is primarily due to your own safety, as it is allowed to have only one poker account per unique IP address.

However, if you have not entered the poker room for a long time (like a couple of months), or you’re NOT registered under another affiliate, you can contact our support team and we will do everything possible to resolve this issue.

Will I receive rakeback if I already got some bonuses?

Of course you will! Rakeback doesn’t affect your relationship with the poker room in any way. Moreover, receiving rakeback gives you great benefits over those, who don’t do this. Some poker rooms deduct bonuses from rakeback, but nevertheless, you will still receive much more benefit from playing with rakeback rather than without it.

How can I get more?

With the help of our «Invite a Friend Program», you can earn even more by getting your friends, relatives or acquaintances play with iRakeBack.netYou will receive some nice commissions from their gross rake. iRakeback.net offers probably the highest commission rates around the world. Ultimately, everyone will be satisfied.

What is Moneybookers?

Moneybookers — is an international electronic payment system based in the UK, which is popular with poker players around the world. Only your E-Mail is enough to get registered. One user is allowed to have only one account in this payment system.

Depositing to Moneybookers

In order to deposit to Moneybookers, you will need to have a Bank account or Visa plastic card. There is a refilling limit, which can not be increased with your initiative. When asked to increase the limit, you will be probably advised to use bank transfer, while the existing limit on the card deposit becomes available. In any case, commission will be taken. If you deposit by bank transfer, commission depends on your bank, and while making a deposit with your Visa card, commission will be 1,9%. Commission to withdrawals is €1,80.

Withdrawing funds from Moneybookers

Visa plastic card (the maximum amount of € 500, the withdrawal limit is set automatically).

Bank transfer (the amount is limited only by your transaction limit).

Operation duration varies, depending on your bank, and is usually a period of 3 to 14 days. Cashing out to Visa card or bank account is approximately the same.

Internal transfers commission is 1% but not more than €0.50 per transfer.

Commission on deposit / withdrawal to poker rooms - 0%.

Instant deposit to a poker room. Withdrawal timing depends on the specific poker room, and stretchs in the range from several hours to several days.

The majority of poker rooms worldwide prefer to work with Moneybookers, and it makes this payment system the most popular and convenient for many online poker players. Register my Moneybookers account »

What do I do if I still have questions?

Do not hesitate to contact us via Live Support or using our Feedback form. iRakeBack.net Support Team will answer all your thematic questions in the nearest 48 hours after receiving your query. Our customer support is working for you around the clock