$30 contest - logo for poker business (EscapeTheRake.com)

Hello again,

On top of the band logo contests I'm running, I need a logo for my new business - EscapeTheRake.com

Escape The Rake will be a poker rakeback website (basically, customers sign up to online poker rooms through our affiliate links and they get a % of the money they pay to these poker rooms back, normally about 30%.)

We are looking for a professional, modern design with possibly a subtle reference to poker (and no rakes, please). We're pretty open when it comes to a colour scheme, as the site is not designed yet.

Constant feedback will be given throughout the contest, and the winner will be paid $30 by paypal. Off you go!

edit: Sorry, I forgot about our tagline! It's "Play More, Pay Less"

 

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Thanks for the entries Tropica. They're not really what we're looking for - we're after a slightly more web 2.0 feel. Also, I'd like the logo to be more compact.

Remember to watermark your work too

 

feedback appreciared .

 

what kinda size? thanks for the feedback

 

Cheers Mendes, I like the colour scheme and basic idea, but escapetherake.com needs to be the centrepoint, with play more, pay less smaller and underneath. Not sure about the escapetherake.com font you used, perhaps if you use the tagline text you had, but make it escapetherake.com instead. Mess around with it along those lines, and we might be getting somewhere

 

Tropica, it's not really about size, it's more about not having too much space between logo/tagline/image. This goes for everyone - we are looking for quite a compact design that is more like a logo, and less like a banner.

 

Another One,

 

See my previous feedback, what I would recommend is:

Lose the entire right hand side of the design
Make EscapeTheRake.com the main text, using the red and blue text you have there
Make play more pay less a lot smaller and underneath escapetherake.com

 

very CooL

 

Here's an example of another rakeback site's logo:

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Something along these lines is what we're looking for.

 

Another One; If u wanna i can delete right side

 

It's not a banner we're looking for, its a logo, so yes - remove the right hand side.
Make EscapeTheRake.com slightly bigger, and use the same font as you had for play more pay less before
Make the play more, pay less text a lot simpler, a bit smaller, and capitalise the first letter of every word
Move the text closer to the image
Can you include the whole image? It looks like half of the last ace has been cut off

 

Another Try;

 

My try:

 

i havn't done one of these contests for a while i have been very absorbed in a game

 

***Removed due to Complaints***

 

hi is this more the look you were after, its narrower and more logo esq. (notice the custom poker chip

 

Looks good but I don't think he wanted an exact replica of the other site's logo - they probably wouldn't be too happy about it either.

 

Who's to say what he wants you? Its not an exact replica only the the color design and layout where similar. I used different fonts, pic, and I used drop shadows. Heres another variation if you dont want it looking that similar.