Frequently Asked Questions

INTRODUCTORY

YOUR RAKEBACK SITE

GETTING PAID

OTHER QUESTIONS

INTRODUCTORY

What is rakeback?

The rake is the portion of the pot taken by online poker rooms as their commission. Rakeback is an incentive program where players are refunded a percentage of the rake from the pots they play in.

Typically, the rake is divided between the player, the online poker room, and a rakeback provider, who markets rakeback offers to players and facilitates rakeback arrangements between online poker rooms and players.

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What does Poker Affiliate Solutions do?

Poker Affiliate Solutions allows new and existing rakeback providers to instantly offer rakeback to their website visitors with no setup costs. We provide access to the best player incentives from major online cardrooms and give you the tools you need to run a successful rakeback website.

Our web-based software for rakeback providers automatically accounts for rakeback, invoices the cardrooms and pays your players. Our web-based software for players makes it easy for your users to manage their accounts and track their play.

Click here to sign up, and in a few easy steps, you can create your rakeback website, select the offers you would like to market, and begin signing up players.

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Do I have to have an existing website to offer rakeback?

No. Although offering rakeback is a great way to monetize traffic from an existing website, some rakeback providers start out their site offering rakeback from the start.

To start your rakeback website, it's best if you have a domain name you can dedicate to your rakeback site. If you already have a website, you can use a subdomain of your existing website, like http://rakeback.example-domain.com.

Don't have a domain name yet? That's okay. Sign up anyway (click here to start), and you can use a subdomain of pokeraffiliatesolutions.com to begin working on your site. Once you're ready to add a domain name, the process is easy.

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Is Poker Affiliate Solutions the right product for me? Can I create my own rakeback software or use another service?

If you have a website geared toward online poker players or you have a desire to make money promoting online poker, Poker Affiliate Solutions is the service for you.

As you calculate the cost of running a successful rakeback provider website, you'll quickly see that Poker Affiliate Solutions saves thousands of dollars in programming and manual work like accounting. Our service enables you to make more money in less time while offering more competitive rakeback rates to your players. Successful rakeback affiliates focus on signing players and let us take care of the process.

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YOUR RAKEBACK SITE

What do I need to do to have a fully working rakeback site?

First, sign up for a new account with Poker Affiliate Solutions (click here). There are no setup costs and it takes only a few minutes to get started. You can have a completely functional rakeback website within minutes.

After setting up your website, it's easy to customize the content, design, and offers. You can get started today: click here to sign up!

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Do I need to hire a web designer to build my rakeback site?

No, you do not. Poker Affiliate Solutions provides tools to customize your rakeback website's design to meet your needs, including matching your existing website's branding.

If you are a web designer or are already working with one, Poker Affiliate Solutions does provide an advanced editing interface where professional designers can customize a website using XHTML and CSS.

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What files do you need to build my rakeback site?

We can match your rakeback site to the rest of your site for you using your CSS and HTML files. Visit How It Works for more details.

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Can I modify the design and content of my rakeback site?

Yes! You can use our content management system to update your content and customize your website's design. Poker Affiliate Solutions also offers an advanced editing interface for professional designers fluent in XHTML and CSS.

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What do I do after my rakeback site is up?

Do what you do best: market your site and continue to build your brand. Poker Affiliate Solutions handles all account management, English language customer service, stats importing from poker rooms, and payment processing (for both you and your players).

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Will the players I recruit be able to refer other players?

Yes! Any player you sign up can refer friends with our built-in referral center.

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Who handles the customer support for the players I sign up?

Our customer service team handles all English language support for your players. In addition, we provide support templates and assistance for non-English language publishers to manage their own customer support.

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Can I see statistics about my players and my earnings?

Yes. Your admin area provides all the stats you need to see what players are earning you money, what poker rooms are earning you money, and what your earnings are all together.

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What else is in my admin panel?

Your admin area also contains a complete helpdesk, payment center, emailer and much more.

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Do you need to connect to the database for my existing website?

No, connecting to the database for your current website is not a requirement to run your rakeback website. Some of our clients have found it advantageous to do so: in some cases it can provide additional integration with your website. Please speak with us directly about those possibilities.

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GETTING PAID

How much will I get paid?

You will get paid 5% of your players' MGR up to $10,000 per month, 6% from $10,001 to $50,000, and 7% above $50,001. These percentages are unmatched in the rakeback industry!

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What is MGR?

MGR stands for Monthly Gross Revenue. It simply means the aggregate of all of your players' activity over all poker rooms for that month.

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No setup costs? How does Poker Affiliate Solutions get paid?

Our overhead is covered by a percentage of the MGR generated by our customers. Our percentage does not come out of your percentage.

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What methods can I use to get paid?

You can use wire transfer, check, or payment via most online poker rooms. Payments are made on a monthly basis.

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If a player clicks a link on my site and deposits at the poker room, will I always be paid?

Yes, unique campaign IDs are created for you at every poker site. You will also be able to request and publish a unique bonus code for each site. Any and all activity from your site will be tracked and allocated to you.

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OTHER QUESTIONS

Are there other ways for me to promote online poker besides rakeback?

In the coming months, Poker Affiliate Solutions will be offering you the chance to promote free bankrolls and a host of poker-related products. In addition, we will offer banners and links for you to create non-incentivized campaigns.

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How many poker rooms are offered for me to promote?

Currently there are over 20 of the Internet's most popular online poker rooms available. We are adding more all the time.

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Can I promote a poker room that you currently do not offer?

Yes, let us know what room and we will add it to our system.

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What if I have existing affiliate accounts? Can you take care of those players?

Most poker sites allow us to transfer players under our accounts so they can be properly managed and serviced. Please sign up for Poker Affiliate Solutions and then contact customer service to get that process started.

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Can I translate the site into multiple languages?

Yes. You can also have multiple sites and/or multiple languages at any given site.

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Can I arrange freerolls/promotions for my players?

Yes, we can help you arrange and manage promotions.

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Will I be able to refer other publishers or webmasters?

Yes, you will earn 1% of the aggregate MGR of any publisher website you refer.

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How do I get started?

Click Sign to get started now!

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