Online poker is a very competitive environment, thus it`s never enough just to promote and advertise a certain poker room. As every online casino have got the idea of client`s retention and encourage players with different types of bonuses, poker sites do the same with poker fans.

Types of poker bonuses

All poker rooms offer almost the same numbers of bonuses as online casinos usually do, but it is possible to divide such bonuses on two types for convenience. First are Sign Up Bonuses or Welcome Bonuses and the second - Recurrent bonuses, which contain several types. First type exists at every poker room while the second differs from site to site. Nevertheless it is built on gaining scores: the more sets you play - the more points accompanied with additional privileges or money you got. As compared with casino bonuses poker Sign Up Bonuses are commonly expressed in a less amount of money. However, it`s quite understandable in consideration of greater probability of winning playing poker.

About poker bonuses and rake within

The main aim of bonus is to express a gambling site`s gratitude to a player who have chose it and maintains to be a loyal client of a site in question.

A lot of gambling amateurs try to increase their balance by a frequent shifting of poker rooms as each of them offers an encouraging bonus. It is not a quite good tactic for a couple of reasons:

• First of all, acting this way you appear to be not very honest player. As a poker room encourages you it expects you to continue playing at the same place. And one fine day this kind of shifting may lead to your account lockup or some problems with payments, thus it is better to choose a poker room at least for a period of time.
• A shifting, mentioned above will damage you game for sure. Just imagine, new tables, new poker room, everything is new - it becomes impossible for you to use to all this stuff. Thus it cannot guarantee a successful game.

There is a generally used term in poker bonuses - "rake". Rake is a certain amount of money, taken by poker room in the capacity of game fee. This amount varies from $1 to $5 of each pot. Playing your favorite game you won`t even notice it`s raked, however with the course of time rake can appreciably influence the size of your winning.

After the registration at a poker room through rake, you are allowed to get back a percent from each dollar, paid by you to rake. This type of repayment is called rakeback. Without rakeback a poker room gains all your rakes. Playing this way for a long time the amount of losses may be huge.