RAKEBACK-WORLD BOLDLY GOES…

There is currently much debate raging about the hot topic of ‘Poker Rakeback’. Depending on which side of the fence you sit, you will either love it or loathe it. The one thing that is for certain though is that players, once they discover it, love it and want to get them some of it! Who wouldn’t – high volume players in particular can do very well out of a good deal.

The prime aim of rakeback is to generate new business for the poker room. The room offers a percentage back to the player to get his/her business and, more importantly, retain it. Rakeback affiliates play an important role acting as the broker - building the relationship with the poker room, finding them new players and then helping to look after and retain these players. The player benefits from getting some money back simply for playing with a chosen room and the affiliate benefits from the commission earned through finding new players (after marketing expenses have been taken into account).
This has inevitably led to a huge influx of rakeback affiliate sites – the majority of which are doing a good job and bringing new business to the poker rooms with which they are affiliated.

This is good news for the poker rooms – they can rely on rakeback affiliates to drum up new business and soak up the cost of doing so. It’s good news for the affiliates as they can earn an income from finding new players through the various affiliate schemes. And it’s good news for the players as the deals offered, and competition for their business, makes it a player’s market. Demand requires supply.

However, and there’s always a ‘however’, how does a player appraise the whole situation laid out before them when looking for the best Rakeback deals? The player needs access to every deal being offered by every poker room to be able to make the most informed choice. This information needs to be presented in a simple, easy to understand format that makes life easy for the player and gets him/her the most suitable deal from the vast selection on offer.
Step up Rakeback-World. www.Rakeback-World.com is nothing radically new in concept but goes where no Rakeback oriented site has gone before.
Rakeback-World is a rakeback directory, compare and review portal, aiming to deliver to players every rakeback deal, offered by every poker room, via every ‘reputable’ affiliate on the market. The site contains a DiRaketory™ that lists all rakeback affiliates that currently offer a rakeback deal with a poker room. Affiliates are listed for free in the DiRaketory™ and webmasters can request their site be added, using a form on the site. Once reviewed and accepted, the site is added to the DiRaketory™.

Rakeback affiliates, poker rooms and their deals are presented to the player in a variety of ways to suit all needs. They can be viewed as a straight listing in the DiRaketory™ with a link to an information page that gives more depth to the affiliate information and a link to the affiliate’s home page. They can be viewed by network, poker room or affiliate to enable players to search for deals with their favourite room or software. The directory can be sorted and filtered in many different ways to provide maximum flexibility.

Best of all is the RakeSweeper™ facility that enables players to search for deals in all manner of ways. As well as searching by network or poker room, players can search for affiliate attributes to help refine the results to those affiliates that offer certain features such as :-

• Whether the affiliate offers online rakeback stats
• Whether the affiliate offers live support
• Where the affiliate is based
• When the affiliate was established

In addition RakeSweeper can search for poker rooms that offer specific features such as :-

• The currency of the room
• Whether rakeback is paid directly to the players poker account
• The average number of players
• Deposit and payout methods

www.Rakeback-World offers many more resources and facilities that will be reported on in a later feature. Reviews of poker rooms/casinos/rakeback affiliates and sportsbooks, poker news and features, poker forum, sudoku, backgammon and much more add to the diversity of information available on the site.
But for poker players searching for the best rakeback deal from everything that is on offer, www.Rakeback-World is the only place to look.

Note: DiRaketory™ and RakeSweeper™ are trademarks of Rakeback-World.