Poker professional and Rake Tracker player Tom Luts wrote part 2 of the Victory Poker launch party weekend on the Rake Tracker blog.

Victory Poker Launch Weekend Trip Report

Poker Affiliate Solutions just concluded a meeting with Full Tilt Poker management. Effective March 1st Full Tilt Poker commissions on all new players will be set to 3%. This affects ALL rakeback affiliates of Full Tilt Poker. These changes are not retroactive and rates on existing players will be maintained.

As a result Poker Affiliate Solutions will be setting all publisher rakeback commissions on new sign ups to 3% at Full Tilt Poker effective March… Continue reading

Poker Affiliate Solutions is proud to announce three new partnerships.  The first partner we have recently  added is Interpoker.  Interpoker has been a long time partner of PAS.  Interpoker, once a member of the Cryptologic Network, joined Boss Media earlier this year.  Interpoker has a strong brand presence in not only poker but other gaming segments where they use the brand Intercasino.  Interpoker offers players the maximum allowed 30% rakeback… Continue reading

Tuesday night I rushed to the airport at around 6:30. I had a fantasy football at 7:00 pm and my flight left at 9:30. I was able to draft for about 7 rounds in the Delta terminal before Herb and I
had to get on the plane. I planned on sleeping the majority of the flight to Amsterdam. However, I ended up watching movies the entire trip! The last two months… Continue reading

Two weeks ago we told you 61% of Rakeback users’ and 56% of Rakeback trackers had lifetime MGR (rake) over $500. Whether you run an existing poker affiliate website or are considering getting your feet wet in online poker marketing, it is essential to analyze your traffic to determine the best means of monetization for… Continue reading

This has been quite a week at PAS. Not only is it time to gather stats and get payments ready for our players but we have some big announcements to make. We will now go to weekly payments on all Full Tilt Poker accounts effective immediately and we have added importers for quite a few poker rooms so that we can better serve our players and publishers… Continue reading

The California Online Poker Bill was unveiled last week. The bill outlines a plan to regulate online poker in the state of California and was brought to the state’s legislature in January.

“Licenses to operate intrastate Internet poker websites under this Act shall be issued only to current Gaming Establishments licensed by the State of California and California tribes with gaming compacts. ”

This means only licensed California brick and… Continue reading

There were a couple of big developments in the industry this week. This biggest news came from the Cake Poker Network. Effective May 1st all Cake Poker Network sites will change the way MGR is calculated. Cake Poker announced what is basically the end for advantage players bouncing from skin to skin to take advantage of first deposit bonuses across the network. The new rules are:

1… Continue reading

This week was payment time for Full Tilt, Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet. Unfortunately though there have been some delays. Full Tilt Poker was able to pay our players around 2am ET on the 16th. While typically they pay our players between the 10th and 12th the range is the 10th through 15th so payments were only a couple of hours late. So many players are… Continue reading

This week Merge Gaming announced a new VIP Program that will replace the old freeroll and bonus system. Now players that rake $500 or more in a month will be given extra rakeback and extra perks. These extra perks include points that can be traded for extra cash, tournament entries or gifts. None of these extra perks are deducted from the player’s rakeback. There was also… Continue reading

This week we removed Poker4Ever from PAS. Poker4Ever started deducting 100% of bonuses from our commissions. This essentially meant that the more players we sent to Poker4Ever claiming a first deposit bonus, the more in the red we would go. There are not any offers on PAS that deduct 100% of a bonus from commission, this would make it impossible to make money promoting virtually any poker… Continue reading

PAS will be running a $5,000 Rake Chase at Cellsino April 1st – April 30th. This is a great opportunity for PAS Publishers to promote a new and exciting room. Payments for players who qualify for the Rake Chase will be made directly to their Cellsino player account in early May.

The Points chase has 5 tiers (10 points = $1 in rake):

Tier 1 – The first 15 players to earn… Continue reading

This week saw the end of an online poker pioneer close its doors. One loved by all bonus players Cryptologic closed early Thursday morning. Poker rooms like Betsafe and Sun Poker had already left the network and the player base had dwindled ever since the UIGEA passed. The only Cryptologic poker room that was promoted on PAS at the end was InterPoker. We have decided at… Continue reading

This week is the week publishers and players all look forward to. This week was payment week. There were a couple of bumps this week that have been straightened out. First Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet experienced a technical issue that delayed payments a couple of days. This issue was resolved and all publishers have been paid, all players that get paid to PAS have been… Continue reading

Every Friday we are going to post the news of the week in “This Week at PAS”. News will include new rooms added to PAS, exclusive bonuses, promotions and industry news that is important to all poker affiliates.

NoiQ Poker, a new addition to PAS, has announced a 100% up to €5000 first deposit bonus. This is the biggest first deposit bonus on PAS. The previous… Continue reading

We have added two new rakeback friendly poker rooms to our ever growing list of offers. Cellsino Poker, a member of the Everleaf Gaming Network and Aced, a member of the Merge Gaming Network have both been added. Players at Cellsino Poker will receive 50% rakeback from now until the end of February. Starting March 1st the rakeback cap of 40% goes into effect. Players will… Continue reading

Last week I had the pleasure to be a guest on Affiliate Life Radio. On the show we discussed the current rakeback market and how the industry has changed through self-regulation.  PAS (raketracker.com), RaketheRake, and a few other major players in the rakeback industry played a major role in the implementation of rakeback “caps”, thus changing the environment of the industry.

Rakeback caps were extremely important for the future… Continue reading

Paradise Poker, a member of the Boss Media Network, has been added to PAS. Players will receive 30% rakeback which is the cap on Boss Media. Players will also receive a 100% up to £500 that is not deducted from MGR. We will be adding many new poker rooms in the coming weeks to offer to your players. Check back often… Continue reading

Merge Gaming announced today that players now get rakeback on tournament fees. This also means that affiliates now get paid on their player’s tournaments. Obviously this is great news for both players and affiliates. Merge Gaming skins had been a hard sell to some players because they did not pay rakeback on tournaments so this should help with conversions. This now means that all rakeback offers… Continue reading

LuckyAce Poker, a member of the 888 Network, has been added to the PAS offerings. LuckyAce Poker is a bonus only offer as rakeback is not allowed on the 888 Network at this time. The bonus is a great offer for players though as it is is 100% up to $400 and 25% of it is paid to the player instantly. You can add LuckyAce Poker by… Continue reading