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Terms Of Payment For Rakeback Deals

By imteaz ahmed
May 27, 2009
Rakeback deals are around all the time and have been for a long enough time now to be considered a staple of the online poker industry. They basically involve a portion of your generated rake being paid back to you as a way of getting people to join the website through promotional marketing. Ever since they were first introduced a few years ago, rakeback deals have been very popular amongst the vast majority of online poker players.

In spite of this however, there still seems to be some confusion over exactly how the logistics of the rakeback work. This is understandable, since there are some online poker websites that do it differently from what is considered the norm. In order to understand this difference, below is an explanation of the norm as well as discussions of the most common deviations from the norm that you will see in the online poker community.

In terms of the norm, rakeback deals are paid out on a regular basis to your online poker real money account. This basis could be one week, two weeks or a month, but the point is that the money is deposited directly into your real money online poker account with that poker site. This is calm, clean and efficient and since almost every single online poker software package now can give you a direct accounting of each real money transaction done into and out of the account, keeping track of the money you get from rakeback becomes very easy to do.

The main problem with this way of doing things however is that not every online poker site that has a rakeback deal will do things like this. Some of the online poker sites in question prefer looking at your payment processor and using that to pay you rakeback separately. Other online poker sites would prefer to give you the money in credit or point totals which you could then use across the website from which you get the rakeback deal. Still, there are other websites that make the rakeback a bonus and force you to play in order to clear it. This last one is getting less and less frequent with each passing month, but it is still one to be aware of.

So, what does this mean for the average player that just wants a decent rakeback deal? Not much, if you make sure that the rakeback offer you go with is one that comes from a website that follows the rakeback norm. However, even if you get stuck with one of the others, the money you get is the same. You just need to be a bit more creative about how you get the money out of your poker account and into your bank account.
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