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Best Poker Affiliates

Everyone has heard stories of high stakes online poker players winning or losing many thousands of dollars in a single month, but not everyone knows it's possible to profit from Internet poker without ever playing a single hand. Poker affiliate programs offer a way to get paid (and get paid big, in some cases) when new players sign up and play at an online poker site, with some of the larger poker affiliates making well over $100,000 a month. Below you will find the best poker affiliate programs together with objective program reviews.

The Best Poker Affiliate Programs

3 most popular programs

Rank Program Score Base
Commisssion 		Lifetime
Commissions 		Realtime
Statistics 		Description Review
1 8.75 $175 CPA yes yes Get an exclusive deal at the EuroPoker affiliate program signing up through AffiliateTips.com. Review
2 8.50 $150 CPA yes yes During 2006 PartyPartners payed over $200 million to their Affiliates. Review
3 8.00 $80 CPA yes yes The Pacific Poker affiliate program is one of the most popular poker affiliate programs. Pacific... Review
4 7.88 $70 CPA yes yes Promote an online poker rooms with tens of thousands active players every hour! Review
5 7.62 $75 CPA yes no Super-strong brand with great payouts. A more mandatory poker affiliate program than Full Tilt... Review
6 7.50 35% CPO yes yes There are several ways of making money through the Absolute Poker affiliate program. You’ll... Review
7 7.13 35% CPO yes yes Although UltimateBet.com is in a competitive segment, the company has a high conversion rate. Review



What is an online Poker Affiliate Program?

So what exactly is a poker affiliate or a poker affiliate program? One of the solutions for online poker sites looking to find new players is to offer an incentive for other people to refer new players to them, essentially doing their marketing work for them. Affiliate marketing is a natural fit for that approach, as that model lets individual website owners and marketers step in and promote poker via poker affiliate sites that they create.

Poker Affiliate Sites

Anyone can serve as online poker affiliates, and the process is very simple. Once you pick an online poker site to promote (see the reviews on this page for the best poker affiliate programs to work with), you'll have to fill out a quick and easy application and submit it. Once you're approved by the affiliate program, you'll be given links and marketing material (including graphics and banners) to promote the poker site on a poker affiliate site that you build, via emails, posting on forums or on blogs, and even through old-fashioned approaches such as business cards or direct mail.

Payment Options for Poker Affiliates

Most affiliate programs allow you a choice as to how you get paid. One option is collecting a one-time payment for every player that you refer who signs up and plays on the site, this is called CPA. Or you can choose instead to be paid a certain percentage of the rake generated by players that you refer, this is called rev-share. The programs all give you online access to stats so that you can not only see how much money you're making from players you've referred, but also more detailed stats such as which banners or graphics are most successful for you, what website is most successful for you, etc. Many programs also provide affiliate managers that work with you directly to give you the best chance of success, as when you succeed and send tons of players to their poker site, they succeed as well, so it's in their interest to help you be as successful as possible.

Top 3 poker affiliate programs: Party Poker affiliate program, Full Tilt Affiliates and Euro Poker affiliate program

Are you wondering about the legality of adding poker affiliate programs to your website? Then you might be interested in our article about poker affiliate legalities.

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