Rake Free Poker - The New Online Poker Innovation for Poker Players
Sunday, February 20, 2011 11:41 AM
One of the biggest changes coming around to online poker is completely Rake Free Poker. Let's face it, the two biggest poker sites for online poker being PokerStars.com and FullTiltPoker.com have been making some very hefty returns from the rakes collected from poker players for EACH hand played. Revenues for PokerStars.com for 2009 are estimated at just over $1.5 billion. Yes, that's Billion with a capital B. 
PokerStars.com has over 35 Million Members to its site and plays an average 1.8 million hands PER HOUR. So, now we can see how quickly those rakes do add up! A new page is about to turn a corner and it won't be good news to the big poker sites like PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com, PartyPoker.com and many other online poker sites. A new generation of poker sites are popping up and they are bringing the Rake Free poker concept to the poker tables and it is gonna be BIG BUSINESS especially in the eyes of seasoned and grinding daily poker players. The rake free concept is basically charging players
only a $20 Monthly Membership that will allow poker players to play every day, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year RAKE FREE for only $20 per month. For those of you who have no idea how much savings that can equate to ....on a $1/$2 table playing about 25 hours a week, a poker player could see themselves paying PokerStars.com or FullTiltPoker.com about $400 per month in rake fees! So compare $400 per Month in rakes on the average popular poker site to only paying $20 per Month for rake free poker, that is HUGE savings for poker players and HUGE losses to be had for PokerStars and FullTiltPoker.The new Rake Free concept is being well received by poker players around the globe and why not ....it's basically saving poker players hundreds of dollars in rake fees per month and let's face it, who doesn't want to have an extra $380 PER MONTH in savings in their pockets! This new poker format will ultimately change the scope of how poker players are charged for playing online poker.
Why should poker players pay a rake IN EACH and EVERY HAND ...for simply having access to a poker site's software online. Custom poker software does NOT cost billions in operational expenses to run for the year. It is actually very minimal once the custom design software is made and there is only routine maintenance on the site to be done.
All in all, this new Rake Free poker concept will force PokerStars.com and FullTiltPoker.com and other sites to really
evaluate how they charge poker players and will most likely get them to change structure to adapt to a new Rake Free poker style concept ....as the poker sites face losing millions of clients (poker players) to the new breed of Rake Free poker sites!