It was reported today by several sources that Microgaming terminated their licensing agreement with Eurolinx.  Almost immediately Eurolinx players that were logged in were locked out of their accounts, some while playing.  Shortly there after Eurolinx took their entire site offline and posted this message:

MALTA – The Linx Media Group has today announced that it

While we are all internet marketers it is extremely important that we don’t miss out on opportunities that the brick and mortar world presents to us.  I bring RakeTracker and PAS business cards to all live poker games and have easily given out 100 business cards in Deadwood, SD, my local poker town.  At least two players have signed up just from the poker games in Deadwood and there is… Continue reading

I get asked often about poker room deductions.  Each room has their own way of computing MGR.  Here is a list of all offers from PAS and what is deducted.

Full Tilt Poker – Bonuses, payment processing fees, overlays and points spent in the store

Cake Poker/Red Star Poker/Power Poker/PlayersOnly – Players do not have any deductions, affiliates have bonuses, deposit fees and promo cash awarded deducted from commission.

Absolute Poker/Ultimate Bet -… Continue reading

Cake Poker recently changed their full ring tables from 10 seats to 9 seats.  This makes Cake Poker’s full ring tables conform with what has become industry standard.  While this may not seem like a big deal it actually is.  There are multiple reasons for Cake Poker to do this, all of them benefit Cake Poker, their skins and affiliates.

What I feel like is the biggest reason for doing this… Continue reading

Party Poker is offering its Million Dollar Hand Promotion for a second time.  The first time Party Poker held the promotion they gave away over $700,000.  Nobody was lucky enough to make the Royal Flush for $1,000,000 so they are giving players a second chance.  Between now and June 28th players will receive a free card for every 15 PartyPoints they earn.  Each card can be used to make a… Continue reading

In my last two blog posts I went over the importance of meta tags and original content. There are several other simple items a webmaster can do to do improve their performance in the search engines. These actions will take you just an hour or so a week.

In my last blog post I covered the importance of using meta tags on your PAS site.  These can be added by going to CMS/Main CMS, going to the page you wish to add tags to and clicking “Edit Meta Tags for this Page”.  The most important page to start with is your index page which is your welcome page in the CMS.  Here you can create… Continue reading

Effective January 1 2009 Ultimate Bet has started paying affiliates for their player’s tournament entry fees.  This means that affiliates and players alike now benefit from playing tournaments on Ultimate Bet as players now get rakeback on these fees as well.  For years this has made Ultimate Bet a tough selling point to some players as there are quite a few players out there that play tournaments for most if… Continue reading

When you join PAS we provide you with basic content for your players for your new PAS website.  This is a great starting point for you.  We highly recommend taking a day creating your own content based on our content.  This is not just for the benefit of your players but also for the benefit of your search engine performance.

We provide these site reviews and FAQs to get you on… Continue reading

While many people in the industry were able to take the last couple of weeks off I am not able to being the main support person for PAS.  This created quite a challenge.  Not only did I have a road trip of 1500 miles (2400 km) from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Atlanta, GA but I didn’t have the same access to the internet on the other end. … Continue reading

It is still 2008 and already we know of major changes in the poker affiliate business coming in 2009. The biggest news came from Microgaming last week. Microgaming announced that skins on their network can no longer appear on any poker affiliate site that promotes rakeback. This was quite a blow to many rakeback affiliates that did quite well promoting Microgaming skins such as Eurolinx. Microgaming allows their skins… Continue reading

My rakeback experience dates back to the very beginning of rakeback sites and rakeback offers. I entered the industry with my rakeback directory concept in November 2004. At that time few affiliates had websites. Most did their business in forum PM systems and by email. One after another rakeback websites like Rake Tracker started coming to the scene. It became the Wild West and the great online poker land… Continue reading

There have been some conflicting opinions on what the Cryptologic/Boss Media poker merger means to players and affiliates.  Some argue that less competition is bad for the industry. Others are worried that their Cryptologic players will not like the software and leave. Some worry that if a player wanted to play on Boss they would be playing there anyway and not Cryptologic whole others worry the monthly bonuses… Continue reading

A shocking announcement was made late today by Chipleader, the affiliate program for Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet.    These two poker rooms, who will soon create the Cereus Network, announced that they will allow players that have not played on Absolute Poker or Ultimate Bet for 90 days and did not originally sign up through an affiliate to move to our rakeback program.  This is huge news.  Answering support… Continue reading

Everywhere the news is reporting a complete economic crisis.  Banks are failing, stocks are plunging, housing markets are a mess and people have stopped splurging on many things.  How will this affect online poker?

Just because the economy is in bad shape does not mean all sectors are failing.  For example video game and console manufacturers are reporting record sales.  Why is this?  It is because people spend a little money… Continue reading

The domain name you choose is the most important part of your start up website.  This is not only true with your performance in the search engines but also with how easily your potential customers will identify and remember your domain name.  The latter can be vastly improved by finding a domain name that can be branded well with a logo or mascot.

Google and other search engines use your domain… Continue reading

Anybody that follows the online gambling forums knows that Bodog has seen better days. Bodog was founded in 1994 and has never met such a challenging time in their entire existence.

Bodog has had several issues that go beyond the UIGEA. One is that they had their domains registered in the U.S. In September 2007 a judge awarded nearly $49,000,000 to 1st Technology LLC. Bodog had… Continue reading

Poker Trillion has been in a war with Boss Media for the last five months over being kicked off the International Poker Network (IPN) that Boss Media manages. There has been a lot of emotional mudslinging on the part of Poker Trillion. They have made several claims that have not been substantiated by the online gambling community and denied by Boss Media.