Chili Poker Affiliate Program Review

Chili Poker is a poker room that runs on the IPoker Network. It is the sole property promoted by the Share the Chili affiliate program.

It features a variety of promotions to offer to your players such as a huge 100% up to $600 signup bonus, lots of special bonuses, freerolls, bounty tournaments, jackpots and an excellent loyalty program.

First of all if you want some fun, check out Google and compare the results for chili poker to chilli poker – note the extra “L” in “chili”. Something to remember if you are writing articles about Chili Poker – it’s a very easy word to misspell. Heck, maybe optimize for “chilly poker” as well just to be safe!

The ipoker is a pretty tough network to promote on. So many competing sites, so many brand names, and of course so many under the table rakeback deals. So, why should you promote Chili Poker over the likes of Titan Poker and William Hill Poker?

Well first of all you shouldn’t promote them over the likes of Titan & William Hill – but you should look at promoting them alongside the other Ipoker rooms. Chili are a solid program, that in 2010 have been making moves to strengthen their brand name with offline tournaments like the Chili Poker Deepstack Poker Open, which ran in Dublin in Februray 2010. Chili are also running many other events, and getting their brand name out there.

Looking at the search engine results, I really don’t think there is too much competition, so you should be able to rank fairly highly for a lot of Chili Poker phrases fast. You should also look at promoting Chili on .co.uk domains(you’re crazy if you don’t ) because they have a big UK audience, and are building it more and more over the next year.

Chili Poker have Liz Lieu on their staff, and run a lot of promotions geared towards Asian trips. For example in 2009 they ran a promotion where you could win a trip to the China Poker Carnival. It’s things like that which really make Chili Poker stand out a fair bit from the crowd.

You also get 70% rev share first month, 60% second month and 50% third month. I work with Nadine at Chili who is excellent, very friendly and very responsive to e-mails. Their backend is also nice and very simple to use, and they have a very good selection of banners in their backend.

Basically if I was going to be promoting one poker room only on the Ipoker network, I’m not sure it’d be Chili. However if I was promoting 3 poker rooms, Chili Poker would most likely be on that list, even moreso now because looking at the year ahead, I think Chili are going to be doing an excellent job at strengthening their brand name.

Click here to sign up as a Chili Poker Affiliate.

The rest of this review is just some general facts and information about Chili which I had my assistant write up.

Chili Poker is based on the IPoker Network, which is targeted towards European players.

If you are looking to promote a poker room that runs a lot of promotions, Chili Poker is an excellent choice. New players are given a 100% up to $600 signup bonus, which is competitive with any other poker room out there. They also have the Progressive Bonus which actually lets the player set the pace of their bonus. There are also bounty tournaments where you can play against poker diva Liz Lieu. Finally, if you like promoting jackpots, Chili Poker has both a Sit-N-Go and a Bad Beat Jackpot. That is just the tip of the iceberg and there are always all sorts of new promos for your players to bite on. Chili Poker frequently sends out newsletters with all the latest news.

Chili Poker’s VIP Club consists of six levels. The interesting thing about it is that not only do players receive player points for playing hands of poker, but you also get points for playing their casino side games. Some of the benefits to their VIP Program include preferred customer support, exclusive freerolls and access to their Hot Shop where you can receive high tech items, poker accessories, trips and lots more. This is a very important tool for a poker room to retain loyal players, thus earning you more money long-term.

Share the Chili’s affiliate backend has got all of the marketing material you need. Materials are offered in several different languages. There are banners (GIF and Flash), press releases, tournament feeds, reviews and offline marketing material for you to use to promote Chili Poker.

Share the Chili starts affiliates off right. Upon signing up, you will receive a stunning 70% revenue share for your first month, 60% on your second month and 50% on your third month. After that, you will earn between 30% and 40% rev share, depending on how much MGR you generate. If you choose to be paid by CPA, you start off at $75 per player and can eventually make up to $150 per player.

The minimum payment for Moneybookers and Neteller is $50, whereas bank transfer is $200. There is no minimum payment required for affiliates who choose to receive their payments in their Chili Poker player accounts. Payments are made on the 15th day of the following month.

Click here to sign up as a Chili Poker Affiliate.