7 Responses

1. private

   January 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm

   1

   That four letter word
   R_A_K_E_

2. Great B

   January 22nd, 2010 at 8:27 pm

   2

   Unlike a casino, a poker room doesn’t have an opportunity to win money directly from the players, so they take a percentage from each pot in order to make their profit. This is called a “rake” they take their cut off the total winnings off the winning hand. In tournaments, the rake is built into the buy-in for the tourney, and is usually referred to after the “+” sign. For example, if you’re playing in a $200 + $15 buy-in event, the $15 is the rake, and the $200 goes toward the prize pool.

3. maruxz

   January 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 pm

   3

   Percentage from the rake collected by the players poker site brought to the particular poker room is only one way of earnings. The rake percentage vary from 25% to 40% with various conditions.
   Another way is a one time fee for a purchasing player (usually who makes deposit and plays the defined amount of hands). The fee is called CPA (cost per action/acquisition) and varies from $10 (refer-a friend bonus) to $300 per player.
   Third way is outsourced advertisement (banner or text links) in case traffic is big and lots of pages are viewed. That is profitable for busy forums and poker social networks.
   There are some other side ways, but this is niches of some marketing companies, running these websites. For example I run a promo where I give $25 for free in partypoker with no requirement to return it back if you win or loose it. Of course, I hope that everyone will win big from these $25 as it is our investment

4. Jeff T

   January 22nd, 2010 at 10:52 pm

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   Either they make their money from advertising, or from a rake.
   Rake = before the pot is given to the winner, a percentage of it is taken off the top and given to the house.
   If five people bet $10 each, the winner might only get $48 back. The other $2 was the fee for using the service.

5. rikitiki

   January 23rd, 2010 at 1:40 am

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   Heres how it works. The free poker site is used to intice you to go to the pay site. The philosophy is that once you feel like your getting good, you are gonna want to get paid real cash for winning. Then, like the other poster stated, they take their rake.

6. Gambling

   January 23rd, 2010 at 2:01 am

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   If its a free site then they dont make money or they put advertisements for that, if its site for money they take rake and thats pretty profitable

7. Karen

   January 23rd, 2010 at 8:18 am

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   hi dont you warry for them thay do just fine and make lots of money from you lossers and winers so every budy pay in the and at a online casino poker.dont loose a sleep over it.