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Texas Holdem Dealing Guide

I wrote up a basic guide to dealing texas hold em poker. It’s just the basics and mainly a way to try and help my landing page rank better for and get traffic for people looking to learn how to deal texas holdem. The texas holdem basics course makes sense to have a page about how to deal texas holdem and I could use some rankings for that search traffic anyway. I’m actively planning a huge revamp of a big site will slowly building out the smaller sites that we plan on keeping anyway and this was a piece of content that made sense to publish.

I am always looking for innovative ways to use content to not only drive traffic to websites but to also work off of one another and create synergy across the network of websites, products, services and offerings that in turn earn income for the business. If you are struggling to send traffic to online poker sites, or if you are having a hard time finding alternative offers to put in front of your traffic (how many pokerstars banners can they see anyway, right), consider promoting Dealer-Training.com for a 50% CPA deal all paid through clickbank.

Man, did Brandon Fuck it Up or What?

Well if you are breathing in the poker affiliate world you know that Aced.com went belly up and the Merge guys who are or are not CarbonPoker.com themselves (who the fuck knows) have attempted to salvage the bankruptcy and have managed to pay most of the affiliates, with the exception of a few ballers who are owed a combined sum of over six figures. (jesus Roger and Andreas you guys are animals… I don’t know how the hell you send that kind of traffic to a site like that and I work on pretty big sites myself! Sick…

Anyway, the following here is pure gossip / speculation but I’m just going to say it.

Skins come and go but the true value is the affiliate relationships.

You seemed to handle it pretty good from Stinky to Chan to Aced but this one stuck you pretty good. Hell I feel for you because I know you were in a bad spot, I can understand. You want to keep that traffic coming to show that new investor the ROI he demands and if you get that new investor you may be able to pull it off and get everyone paid and back on track but when you are paying the bills with credit cards then your in trouble. It was a gamble… a desperation gamble even at that and you lost. I know I expected big things from Aced.com when they launched and it seemed like once the Jamie Gold fiasco happened that there were no additional ideas or efforts to recruit a base of poker players. Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think so.

Shitty situation and I expect more and more skins to fail, especially those skins that do not actively market to bring in RECREATIONAL players. This is the way the wind is blowing. Plan accordingly fellow affiliates.

Related Posts

• Aced.com 120k Debt to two affiliates
• Calling out Brandon Berndt – Aced.com Poker Manager
• Aced transitions to PDC Affiliates

Sportsbook.com Affiliate Program

This post was inspired by Prenut’s post about the sbook/playersonly affiliate program and if anyone had experience working with Sportsbook.com and Players Only affiliate program. I started to write a reply there and drop my affiliate link but instead of doing that I figured I would write this post here and snag the google traffic. Being a markerter and being lazy means if I’m going to take the time to write something this long and designed to rank for people searching for answers about the Sportsbook poker affiliate program then I may as well do a full blown post here and try and keep the cobwebs off of this site. I got a third kid on the way and daddy needs some new shoes!

Sportsbook.com Affiliate Program – Refer Your Players to Sportsbook

In 2006, when the UIGEA first went down (and ironically today is the day it is supposed to be enforced) I was invited to be one of the first affiliates of the new Sportsbook.com site and I jumped at the chance. You can sign up at commissionaccount.com or Sportsbook.com affiliate signup here. I’ve been working with the account manager back from the Paradise Poker days, one of the very first online poker rooms to offer real money poker and I recommend them to most affiliates I network with.

The Sportsbook.com brand has consistently converted as well as any of the major online poker rooms listed on the site, and better than most.

This is due in no short part to their credit card processing, which is second to none and super important or the conversion rate if you are sending recreational players (which is what the rooms want!).

I’ve sent a bunch of affiliates who are quite happy that they began promoting them and many have them as their number one room. Join the healthy group of high quality sub affiliates and together we can accomplish more. Plus you’ll get Stephen for your affiliate manager and he is one of the best in the biz.

In the 5+ years I’ve been doing business with them, he has always been professional and spot on. We have not in that time seen any player issues from poker and sportsbook traffic. However I know some respectable old school affiliates have major negative issues with the long time ago parent company and I respect that. In my own personal experience, the affiliate program at Sportsbook has been a quality, reputable organization for both affiliates and players. I would deposit my own money there.

Sportsbook Affiliate Program Benefits

• Regular on time payments every month
• Multiple payment options (wire, check, ewallets etc)
• Convert like gangbusters – seriously these guys are always ahead of the credit card processing game – vital for the recreational player
• Healthy CPA’s – however the attached sportsbook and casino + ease of deposits mean MGR should be a serious consideration
• Read More about the Sportsbook.com Affiliate Program

If you do not have US or Canadian traffic, you can pretty much not bother promoting them as the players they accept is restricted to those two North American countries at the moment. As far as choosing between MGR and CPA, you have to decide what makes the most sense to your business whether you take MGR or CPA but you can negotiate both but be prepared to begin with MGR if you are an unknown / new / unproven affiliate. You will get a fair deal and once you prove your player value you can then consider negotiating for a CPA deal if you wish. CommissionAccount.com is the direct link to sign up.