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Happy New Years all! After an extended break for the holidays in November and December we will be starting our third Minted Poker League. It will have a similar six week with extra league prizes format to the second version with the exact dates to be announced soon.   For those that have been enjoying my EpicPoker.com Social Director columns focused on the poker and Twitter world, here is my latest column - Enhancing the Value of Twitter for...

What is rakeback?

F.A.Q.

Commonly asked questions by newer players

Rake is the term for what poker players pay to play poker on a poker site. Rake is how poker rooms make money. The poker sites deducts a certain amount from every cash game pot, or have the player pay an extra fee on top of the buy in for every tournament and Sit and Go. The poker sites average a 5% rake across all their games. With the volume of players and hands, that accumulates into a tremendous amount of money. Rakeback is simply a discount you receive back from the rake you pay in.