Rakeback is where you get a percentage of your rake back every week/month. Not all rooms offer rakeback and every room offers a different amount. For example Unabomber Poker, home of Pokerpro Phil Laak offers you 33% of your rake back.

A network is basically when more than one online poker room shares the player base and software. The rooms are run by separate companies but share players across the network to increase traffic and keep the tables full. This is very common in online poker.

Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet are part of the Cereus network and share the same players. Rooms like Full Tilt poker are independent as they already have plenty of players.

Yes, if for example you have an account at Cake Poker there is nothing to stop you having an account at Unabomber Poker.

However, most networks such as the Cake network will only allow you to have rakeback at one room on the network so keep that in mind before you sign up for rakeback.

Yes, playing online poker is legal in most of the world, even in the US. If you are at all unsure then contact the poker room you wish to play at and they should be able to let you know.

Although if poker is illegal where you live then the poker room should not let you register an account so give it a try and you will soon find out.

Yes, I have played at a lot of poker rooms over the last few years and I have never had any problems.

All of the sites that are listed on this site are some of the best in the business. Some may be better than others and some may have better customer service but none of them are unsafe.