Poker Affiliates Earning More Than Lawyers
By TC Shannon, Sat Dec 10th
affiliates are laughing all the way to the bank thesedays as online has exploded with the popularity of showslike the World Series of and the World Tour. Theconcensus on the net is an "affiliate program" isn't a realbusiness but with so many people playing poker, there is a LOTof money to be made. Online rooms realized from thebeginning that word of mouth just wasn't going to be enough tokeep the players coming, but with thousands of affiliates thingschange in a hurry. Some affiliates are now making well over 500,000 per yearby promoting their favorite room. Now...not everyaffiliate is making this kind of money but you would probably besurprised at how many actually are. It's estimated that PartyPoker has over 50,000 affiliates promoting their site ALL thetime, 24 hours a day 365 days a year. You really don't need wordof mouth when you have that kind of backup The rooms pay either a percentage of the profits (25-40 %)or some will pay a bounty per player between $65-$150 dependingon the room. Most affiliates prefer the percentage whichis supposed to be based on the "life" of the player that signedup but recent controversy has popped up on forums acrossthe net when partypoker changed their "affiliate agreement".Apparently, partypoker has decided that if your player doesn'tplay for 60 days he/she is no longer your player and yourpercentage is null and void. If this is true and I'm not sayingit is, then the life of the player doesn't mean a hill of beans.I know that I dont always play at the same room every 60 days,sometimes I might go 3 or 4 months playing at pokerroom.combefore i go back to play at party.
Needless to say, it has stirred up a growing hornets nest ofangry affiliates. I'm sure PP has enough brand recognition nowthat it wouldn't matter if they lost a few good affiliates hereand there but......If 30-40 % got pissed, it could change thewhole swing of traffic on the net. They might not be thelargest room on the net anymore. Let's throw some numbers aroundand see what would happen if 100 super affiliates that average500 players a month all of a sudden redirected traffic. Thats50,000 players gone to another
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room. This is the kind ofpower that affiliates have on the internet and personally....Ithink it's a good thing. My affiliate manager personally told me he has guys making over100k per MONTH! How's that for an annual salary, that's a cool1.2 million dollars a year. With that much money on the lineit's no wonder they employ full time managers just to take careof affiliates needs. It also goes to show just how much moneythese casino's and rooms are making. The power of theinternet! About the author:Another pokerdude goes all in http://www.games-videopoker.com | 
