What rakeback does is give some of those fees back in the form of a rebate typically paid directly to your poker account on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis depending on the poker room in question. Each player at the table will have paid some portion of that $100 in rake depending on how many hands they participated in (the more hands you play, the more rake you pay). While it seems trivial enough, buyer beware, as over the course of an hour, an online poker site will rake approximately $100 off of the table in fees at a $1/$2, $200 dollar buy-in No Limit Hold'em game. More commonly than not it is a 'small' percentage of the pot, typically capped at anywhere from $0.50 to $3.00 USD per hand of real money poker play, although this rake fee varies from site to site. That rake comes in a variety of different forms. Internet poker sites make their money by charging a fee called 'rake ' for each hand of play, much like your local live casino does in its poker room.
