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Many players understand that rakeback is important to a poker player?s bottom line, but do not entirely understand how rakeback works. The most obvious definition is that rakeback is the percentage of the rake you pay in ring, sit and go, or tournament poker that is refunded to you by a rakeback provider. This is where the confusion begins as different sites calculate the amount of rake paid by a player in different ways. The two most common methods for calculating rake are as follows.

Contributed rake is a system used by several networks, most famously the Boss network and more recently Absolute Poker. Contributed Rake requires a player to wager money in a pot to be counted as having paid rake for a hand. For example, if a hand consists of the table folding to the small blind who completes, and the big blind checks the only two players who would be contribute to the pot are the two players in the blind. The rake generated would be credited to those two players only for that hand.

Rakeback is provided by poker room affiliate. Rather than keeping the entire commission, as an incentive to keep players playing at a site, they are paid a large portion of that commission, known as rakeback. This varies from 20 to 50% depending on the site.

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