THE #1 POKER AFFILIATE GUIDE

Cake Poker are running a new awesome promotion for affiliates.  It is a trip to CAP Euro 2008 for an affiliate and their guest.  The full details are:

• 1 Hotel Room for 5 nights, either a room with double beds, or a room with King/Queen size at conference hotel, or hotel close by.
• Round trip economy airfare for 2, from any US or European city.
• $200 per day spending money.

The only requirements are that you send at least 5 new players to Cake Poker by August 31st, and that they generate a minimum of $100 NGR.  If you’re not an affiliate of Cake Poker then now is a great time to get started - sign up here.

Hi everyone,

The step by step guide to becoming a poker affiliate is still in progress - part 2 should hopefully be up shortly. The problem with it is that I want to be indepth as possible(as I’m sure you saw by part one) and so I haven’t managed to free up 4-5 hours where I can sit down and just write on it.

In the meantime, I’m going to be doing as many affiliate program reviews as possible, as those are obviously very popular and requested articles. The latest one, which you can read now, is my Full Tilt Poker Affiliate Program Review.

Hi all, the step by step guide part two has to wait for a few days due to easter, and me coming down with a slight flu afterwards.

I’ve added a Cake Poker Affiliate Program Review to the site however, and as I’ve mentioned here before - Cake is currently my #1 site to promote for so many reasons, so read the review and find out why you should sign up as a Cake Affiliate!

Lately I’ve been talking to a lot of people who are interested in becoming a poker affiliate, but have little to no knowledge of the affiliate and poker industry in general.  Most people want a step by step guide on getting started with the industry - so I have started to write up a series of in-depth articles on getting started in the industry.  This will take affiliates from the very beginning, to the point where they are earning money months down the road, and what they should do with that money.

I’ve written up part one already, and part two should be here this weekend. So read all about Becoming a Poker Affiliate - a Step By Step Guide.

I just want to send out a thank you to all affiliates who read, and reacted to my letter to Full Tilt article written two days ago.  No more e-mails need to be sent, because Full Tilt have listened to affiliates, and came to a compromise.  A player is now considered a real money player when their account balance hits at least the $25 mark.  So if someone gets transferred $25 they are now a real money player.  If someone gets transferred $20 they’re not - but as soon as their balance hits that $25 mark, they become a real money player.

Is this perfect?  No.  But it’s a lot better than what it was.  Down the road, I’ll most definitely look into getting this improved even more, but for now I’d say this little “battle” has been resolved.  A big thanks to everyone who e-mailed, and also to the affiliate managers at Full Tilt who not only listened to us, but then took the matter to the powers that be.

As I’m sure most existing Full Tilt Poker affiliates know, Full Tilt Poker recently made the decision to enforce their policy of a player being removed from an affiliates tracking if, after 60 days, they aren’t qualified as a real money player. This has been covered in detail in this thread on Poker Affiliate Programs so I won’t go into it here. Bottom line is that this decision was made, and there doesn’t appear to be any way to get this changed.

However there is a bigger problem stemming from this situation - the definition of a real money player, as per Full Tilts terms and conditions. Currently, the T&C state that a real money player is someone who makes a minimum deposit onto the site. What does this mean? It means that if a player receives a transfer on Full Tilt but doesn’t deposit, or wins a freeroll and gets their bankroll started that way -after 60 days, the player will be removed from your reports, as they aren’t classified as a real money player. So in theory, someone can get a transfer for thousands of dollars, play NL600 every day for 60 days generating thousands of dollars of revenue - yet aren’t classified as a real money player, so you wouldn’t get the credit for sending them to the poker room. (more…)