All about poker affiliate
Affiliate is (from English Affiliate) – a partner of a poker room (usually a website), engaged in its advertising and attracting new players. In the circle of poker professionals, the term “aff” is often used as an abbreviation for “affiliate”.
All professional poker players know: playing with an affiliate is always more profitable and reliable! But what are the differences between poker affiliates, what to pay attention to and how to choose the best one?
We have prepared answers to all these questions for you 🙂
№1 Reliability
Poker is money, accordingly, the issue of the safety of funds always comes first and the reliability of the affiliate should not raise any questions. How can you determine if an affiliate is reliable, you ask…
The most accurate criterion is the number of transactions in world rooms.
It’s very simple: large rooms do not give a deal to anyone. In order to get a deal, especially a good one, an affiliate must have its own high-quality website, confirmation of the declared number of players, and often the rooms provide a kind of “trial period”. This means that if an affiliate does not carry out the stated number of transactions (adding players, deposits, withdrawals, etc.), the room can deprive the affiliate of its terms or the deal as a whole.
Accordingly, if an affiliate has only a couple of rooms in its arsenal, it is either a newbie or a suspicious guy.
The more different transactions from trusted rooms an affiliate has, the more indicators that it has been on the market for a long time and is reliable.
№2 Payout speed
We’ve figured out reliability, what’s next?
Even playing in the best rooms and having no doubts about your poker affiliate, any player’s eye can twitch from time to time thinking about payouts.
Why is that? First of all, it is worth immediately clarifying these questions with the affiliate, namely:
– in what period is the rakeback accrued?
– where is the RB credited (game account or wallet)?
– if the payment goes to the wallet, then which wallets are available?
– how much time will it take to pay out from the moment of the request until it is credited?
The more experienced the affiliate, the more quickly and comfortably he solves such issues for the player.
Accruals in all rooms are made in the first days of the current month (in some rooms until the 15th) for the previous one.
Rakeback in rooms can be credited in different ways: mainly to the player’s wallet, but there are rooms that offer to withdraw RB to the game account — the best affiliate will always tell you about this opportunity.
The methods of calculating rakeback to the wallet are also a significant indicator of the affiliate’s reliability. The more payment methods the affiliate offers you, the better in terms of reliability.
In rooms with an agent cash desk or in rooms where players play from rented accounts, cashouts are paid through the affiliate’s wallets. The shorter the chain “affiliate – room”, the faster it will withdraw your funds from the room and the more profitable the deal will be for the player.
№3 Rakeback percentage
The offered rakeback percentage (
What is rakeback) of an affiliate largely depends on its reliability.
Here everything is simple: the larger the affiliate (the more regular players the affiliate has) – the better the deal the room gives it. In some rooms, rakeback depends on the rake size – in this case, the affiliate will definitely tell you about the fork and the dependence of the numbers, or the greedy one will only tell you the lower number.
Don’t be shy about asking about the conditions!
№4 Player support
An affiliate for a player is like a class teacher for a schoolchild 🙂 (if you try to compare)
A player can play independently, but an affiliate always gives a higher rakeback than the room directly + special bonuses.
If a player has questions, he can always write to the room’s support, but not all requests are processed quickly, and an affiliate usually knows everything and can quickly help with all issues.
And don’t forget about speed response and reaction, the best affiliate will value its players and will try to make the client’s game as comfortable as possible.
№5 Communication methods and website
A good affiliate will always offer you several options for communication at a time convenient for you. It is common that large affiliates have players from all over the world and, accordingly, different time zones in their arsenal. Those who focus on their clients are always in touch (or almost always 🙂
Pay attention to the affiliate website, a self-respecting agent always monitors the relevance of contact information, posts all their transactions on the website and is equipped with a blog. This is the majority, the rest are small affiliates.
Well, it always makes sense to rely on reviews, and here from the other side, not to look for the best ones, but to see if there are any bad ones, especially in large numbers.
Any questions left?