Rake

Usage area

This files most often on the rail talking in the context of the club and sports poker when it comes to gambling establishments acting as intermediaries between opponents. 

Description

Rake – the amount that the gambling house takes from the Bank as payment for the provision of services'.

This fee is charged in poker and other gambling games, in which the participants of the draw are opponents to each other.

Usually, the rake is a few percents of the total amount bank. Sometimes it is fixed or has a maximum size.

There is no rake in games against casinos. In the institutions earn thanks to mathematical superiority.