Frequently Asked Questions for Rakeback

Some of the many reasons we feel our site is your best choice for rakeback include:

- In-Depth Customer Support
- The highest allowed rakeback percentages
- Huge commissions on referrals - up to 5% of your friends' MGR
- Anytime cashouts for select poker sites
- Daily stats updates
- More than $100k in monthly giveaways!!!

RakeBreak.com takes pride in the fact that we always have followed the rules and guidelines of the poker sites that we deal with. Getting rakeback from us is possible because we have made arrangements with the various poker sites on our list. We help out the poker sites by bringing players to them and in return, each of these poker sites that we refer you to, gives us a percentage of your rake as commission. Then, we give the majority of this commission back to you, the player!

For most poker sites, the rakeback you can earn is not a direct percentage of your rake, but rather a percentage of the net revenue (MGR/NGR) the poker site has generated from your play.  To get this number, first your rake is added up and then certain deductions are made before coming up with the final number.  You then receive your percentage of the final net revenue number.

On Full Tilt and most other sites, deductions are made on deposits and various withdrawals, and thereby to preserve rakeback, we recommend that you not deposit and withdraw more than necessary. 

Full Tilt deductions from your MGR include but are not limited to bonus dollars cleared, deposit fees, various withdrawal fees (paper checks cost $15), points spent in the FTP store ($5 against MGR for every 1,000 points spent), and tournament overlays.  The last part is a bit confusing, so let us explain.  If you enter a tournament that has a guarantee, but that guarantee is not reached by the buy ins in the event, each player's MGR is deducted for their piece of the extra money in the prize pool.  For instance, if there is a $10,000 guarantee but only $9,000 in buy ins and there are 100 players in the event, each player's MGR is deducted $10.  The reason for this is that Full Tilt is providing an extra $1,000 to the prize pool, divided amongst 100 players.  The same rules apply for freerolls entered.

On most other sites, bonuses are deducted from your MGR.  However, on several they are not.  See individual poker site sign up pages on RakeBreak for information about how bonuses will affect your rakeback.

RakeBreak has affiliate connections that can give you the best chance possible to convert an existing non-rakeback account into a rakeback account.  The sucess rate with these attempts is not extremely high as poker sites are very hesitant to switch a player to a new affiliate, but we are still very often able to help players out.  To apply to get rakeback on an existing account, click here to start the process.

Skins are basically different companies that all share the same software platform and run their tables through the same server.  For example, Cake Poker, DoylesRoom, and Players Only are 'skins' on the Cake Poker Network.  These poker sites host the exact same player base.  Therefore, while playing on the Cake Poker Network, you may be sitting across the table from players that have signed up through Cake Poker, DoylesRoom, Players Only or any other 'skin' on the Cake Poker Network.

In most cases, the poker sites regulate what we're allowed to offer.  Some of our offers, however, pay a higher rakeback percentage to higher volume players than to the lower volume players. 

There are certain offers (such as our Entraction Network sites) where you can switch from a flat rakeback deal to a tiered VIP system.  Usually in these cases, the flat deal is better for low-medium volume players, while the VIP deal is better for high volume players.  For more specific information about these deals, please see the individual sign up pages for each room on our site.

(DEALT) For example Full Tilt, Sun Poker, InterPoker, and Cake: Take the total rake collected, divided by the number of players at the table (i.e. $2 rake, divided by 10 = $0.20). Thus, on that hand you generated 20 cents even if you folded preflop. Then, 20 cents x # of hands you play in a month determines your MGR (rake) that you generate for the poker site.

(AVERAGE CONTRIBUTED) For example Ultimate Bet, Absolute Poker, and Action Poker:   Players must contribute to the pot (even just 10 cents), in order to be credited for rake generation on that particular hand. The total rake is divided EVENLY by the number of players who contributed at least 10 cents to the pot (includes small blind and big blind). Therefore, let's say that Player #1 puts in $10, Player #2 puts in $60, and player 3 puts in $60. The total rake taken is $3. Each player has generated $1 in rake!

(WEIGHTED CONTRIBUTED) For other sites: Every player is credited rake from each pot according to how much he has put into the pot. For example, a pot’s size is $40 and the rake taken is $2. A player who contributed 10% of the pot (which in this case would be $4) would be considered as having generated 10% of the rake ($0.20). Players who do not contribute any stake into the pot he would not receive any credit.

We receive a report on how much rake each and every one of our referred players generates from our partner poker room. With this data, we can quickly figure out how much of this rake we owe you.

You can track your daily rake stats either on our site directly by accessing your 'My RakeBreak Account' or on the poker site itself.

For the following sites, you can cash out your rakeback at anytime in your "MyRakeBreak" area:

UltimateBet
Absolute Poker
Bodog

The anytime cashouts also apply to any and all commissions earned via our Referral Program.  The rakeback stats are updated daily, so your balance will reflect your daily poker play on those sites.  You are able to cash out those earnings via a poker room transfer on UltimateBet, Absolute Poker, Full Tilt, or Cake Poker. The minimum cashout is $10.  Amounts less than $10 will be carried forward to the next month until you have accumulated the minimum $10 to cash out.

For Full Tilt Poker rakeback, your earnings are automatically paid to your Full Tilt account on a weekly basis.  Each Friday, you will be paid for a week's worth of play up to the previous Monday.  For instance, on Friday, September 19, you will be paid for all play between Tuesday, Sept. 9 and Monday, Sept. 15.  This is a new payment method for Full Tilt as of September of 2008.

For all other sites, rakeback payments are made directly on the corresponding poker site once per month.

This depends on the poker room.  Please see the poker room's review page for details on their policies,  however, for most poker rooms you will generate rake. The amount of rake you generate is simply the tournament fee.

You must generate at least $10 to cash out on sites where we pay you via peer-to-peer transfer.  See the answer to the question, "When will I receive my rakeback" for more information on which sites this includes.  Most other sites do not have a minimum for you to receive rakeback, but you should read our review of each site you join in order to be sure, as we give this information for each poker site.

MGR stands for "Monthly Gross Revenue."  Generally this number is comprised of the amount of rake you've generated in a given month, minus any applicable charges.  Charges can include deposit fees, bonuses cleared, and any other associated fees on your account.  On Full Tilt, for instance, any time you spend Full Tilt Points, your MGR is deducted by $0.005 per point.

Yes, you will still receive a sign-up bonus along with your monthly rakebreak! We will send you all of the necessary information after you register for a RakeBreak account.

Please keep in mind that on some poker rooms bonuses are deducted from your MGR.

For some poker rooms, all or a percentage of bonuses that you have cleared during any given month will be deducted from your MGR for that particular month.  Please see that poker rooms review page for details.

NOTE: AP and UB (effective February 22, 2007 and FOR US PLAYERS ONLY); and Full Tilt -- throughout the month deduct the following from your MGR:

Deposit fees
Tourney overlays (added money to players' tourneys)
Points in their store or for tourneys
Full Tilt Poker also deducts released signup and reload bonus dollars

For Full Tilt, Absolute Poker, PlayersOnly and Bodog, our site displays ones MGR which is equal to the players total rake minus deductions.

We offer two options to get paid for the players you refer to RakeBreak. Option one, we will pay you between 2.5% and 5% of referred players' rake for life.  With option two, we will pay you a one-time $50 cash bonus when that player has raked $500 combined on our poker rooms listed on our site. Simply create a referral code in your 'My RakeBreak Account' section and choose which commission type you want for your referrals to RakeBreak.

Your referral commission will be paid into your RakeBreak account, and you will be able to cash it out via peer-to-peer transfer on Full Tilt, Absolute Poker, UltimateBet, or Cake Poker. 

For more information on our Referral Program click here.