During February, PokerAffiliateSolutions and Coral Poker are brining back the $25 No Deposit Bonus that we offered last fall. Unlike the previous bonus we offered -- which was limited in availability to former Eurobet players -- this bonus offer will be offered to all new players. This bonus presents a great opportunity for PAS publishers to promote an offer that does not require a deposit. Please note that this bonus will only be open to the first 100 players that request the offer. Sign-Up Steps Players must follow three simple steps to receive this bonus: 1) The player must use Coral Poker links through a PAS site 2) Signs up to Coral Poker 3) Email Coral Poker at pokerpromotions@galacoral.com asking to be credited with $25 No Deposit Bonus. The player will then receive the $25 bonus within 3 business days while tracking is double checked. Once the bonus is issued, 100 Player Points must be earned, which is the equivalent of about $28 in rake. There is no time limit on completion of the bonus. About Coral Poker Other perks of signing up for Coral Poker include a 100% up to $1,000 sign-up bonus and a VIP program that yields up to $690 in cash bonuses per week. Coral Poker is a Gibraltar-licensed poker room on the Ongame Network, one of the largest in Europe. Over 4,000 real money players play at Ongame during peak times, with cash games prevelant at No Limit Hold'em, short-handed Fixed Limit and Pot Limit Omaha. Top tournaments include the $200,000 guaranteed ChampionChip tournament held each Sunday. Players have the ability to play at Coral Poker on an Apple or Windows machine. The poker room also offers a Instant Play version available to Apple and Windows users. A full lineup of deposit and withdrawal options are offered by Coral Poker inluding Neteller, Skrill and popular credit card options. We anticipate that these No Deposit offers will go quickly, so take that into account when making your February marketing plans.
More big Full Tilt Poker news this week as the Department of Justice amended the civil complaint against the company. Meanwhile, investor negotiations are reportedly progressing with a letter of intent from French investors to purchase the battered poker site. Get caught up to speed on these stories and more in our Weekly Industry Update. Full Tilt Poker Update: New DOJ Actions and Investor Letter of Intent The week began with a private hearing with the AGCC on Monday. There was no official word from the AGCC on the results of the hearing or the status of the Full Tilt Poker license. The delay is likely attributed to the status of investor negotiations, which according to reports include a letter of intent from unnamed French investors. According to Subject Poker, the terms of the purchase agreement "would provide funds to allow the repayment of account balances to all Full Tilt Poker players worldwide." The DOJ and the AGCC are aware of the letter of intent. In other major news from the week, the DOJ amended the civil complaint against Full Tilt Poker to add three new defendants: Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson and Rafe Furst. In a statement, the U.S. DOJ alleged that the directors operated the site as a "ponzi scheme" against players that paid $444 million to board members that eventually led to a $300 million plus shortfall as of March of this year. A lawyer for Full Tilt Poker rejects the notion that Full Tilt Poker was a ponzi scheme while acknowledging that the site made mistakes. It's important to note that no criminal charges have been made against the new defendants; however, the DOJ has moved to seize board members funds. It remains to be seen whether these latest charges affect the sensitive investor negotiations in any way. Latest Traffic Update from PokerScout: PokerScout's traffic report from last week reported a 2.4% drop in traffic over the last week. Merge Gaming picked up 3% after a poor showing from the previous week. In the year-over-year report, Bodog, Merge and iPoker have all gained over 20% while Microgaming, Entraction and Boss are among the PAS partners to lose traffic. Coral Poker Affiliate Account Ready PAS is happy to report that Coral Poker affiliate account has been created and you can start promoting Coral Poker on your websites effective September 23rd. Remember, Eurobet will be closing on September 30th, so make sure that you inform players promptly that they will have to create new accounts at Coral Poker. Players will receive the same deal they received at Eurobet plus new extra retention promotions. Jottings: PPA issues statement on latest Full Tilt Poker charges... Bodog blocking player and table data in poker software...Ireland plans new online gambling laws...AGA releases new code of conduct...Denmark egaming market opening up in early 2011.
The Coral Poker affiliate account is ready to go with multi-currency support for players (USD, EUR, GBP, SEK) and the Coral Poker offer is now live on PAS. You can start promoting the offer on your websites immediately by logging on to the publisher admin and navigating to the “Rakeback” tab. You will then be able to “enable” the offer at the top of the Bonus Offers section near the bottom of the page. Instruction/Communication to Players Once the offer is live for you, instruct players to follow the standard sign-up steps through your Coral Poker review that they would for any other poker room on your site. If you notice any issues or untracked players, be sure to let us know asap so we can get it resolved. After the offer is live on your website, it’s very important to reach out to your valued Eurobet players and inform them that they can receive the same deal they received at Eurobet plus some nice extra benefits, which are detailed below. Note that the details of some of these promotions have changed slightly over the last week: Offer Highlights: --$50 No Deposit Bonus, available exclusively to former Eurobet PAS players (limited to the first 100 players). After 100 players, players will receive a $10 No Deposit bonus. Clearance rate is 8 player points per $1, players must contact eurobetcoral@galacoral.com. Bonus expires after 30 days. --VIP Offer --VIP Points and Status Transfers (for former Eurobet players) by contacting Coral Poker at eurobetcoral@galacoral.com --Choice of sign-up bonus: 100% up to $1,000 (ACES) or $25 for a $10 deposit (25FOR10)- 8x clear rate, 45 day expiration time. A player enters in the code when they transfer money into their poker account. --$10,000 Points Race during October- this is for all players --Free Poker Coaching at DeucesCracked if you promote the offer There is no referral code that players have to enter when signing up.. Retagging players already signed up to Coral Poker If you have a player that already signed up to Coral Poker, you can have the player retagged to you by submitting a ticket or collect their Coral Poker information and then submit the information to us. How to reach out to your players: Suggestions for how you can do to reach out to your players, some of which we are doing on our retail brand, RakeTracker: --Mailers to your former Eurobet players --Personal mailers to your VIP players --Front page notices --News Posts --Coral Poker or Eurobet Review Page notices --Social Media If you have opted in to our Eurobet mailer program, be sure to let us know when the offer is live on your site so we can send a custom mailer to your players. We realize this is a lot of information to take in; please let us know if you have any questions at all.
Gala Coral makes a surprise decision by closing their Eurobet brand on September 30th while Merge Gaming representatives address rumors the network may be a target of DOJ enforcement. These stories and more are a part of this week's PAS Weekly Industry Update. GalaCoral to Close Eurobet, Focus on Coral Poker Longtime PAS partner Eurobet announced last week that they would be closing the Eurobet brand due to "recently enacted changes European legislation," which has effectively resulting in a consolidation of brands. The Gala Coral poker side of the business will now focus on Coral Poker. The transition of players from Eurobet to Coral Poker will not be seemless, but Eurobet representatives have stated to us that they wish to continue working with PAS under the same player and affiliate deal. We have posted an action plan for publishers suggesting Eurobet alternatives detailing a Eurobet migration to Coral Poker. Merge Gaming Sites Address Rumors: Representatives of Merger Gaming skins have responded to a report that the DOJ is planning action against Merge Gaming in the near future. CarbonChris, a representative from Carbon Poker stated that "player funds ARE segregated and 100% safe" while an RPM rep said that the "license Merge has obtained from the LGA requires this." Merge Gaming is currently the largest site allowing play from U.S. players, although they haven't accepted new sign-ups since early June. A plan to reenter the market has been delayed over the last few weeks. Latest Traffic Update from PokerScout: PokerScout reported a 0.6% loss in overall traffic over the previous week with non-Poker Stars traffic increasing 1.2%. Merge Gaming traffic decreased approximately 5% resulting in the first time in online poker's history there has not been a U.S. facing room in the top 10. Microgaming and Boss Network were two notable rooms moving up in the traffic rankings. Full Tilt Poker Update A scheduled hearing originally planned for September 15th has been pushed back to September 19th by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. The original meeting was delayed in late July to allow for exclusive negotiations with European investors to continue, which ended in late August; the room now is reportedly in talks with a half dozen potential investors. Meanwhile in Canada, a new class-action lawsuit has been filed against the company. Jottings: Massachusetts state representative proposes online poker amendment...Article explains why Entraction is banning five countries...EGR moving to a subscriber based service...Betsson pays additional €15 million for Betsafe.
We know that as of September 30th Eurobet will be shut down and closed by parent company Gala Coral with Coral Poker becoming the new poker brand. Unfortunately, we also now that players will NOT be automatically migrated to the new site and affiliates will have to market and communicate to players to get them to sign-up through Coral Poker under them. The good news for PAS publishers is that Coral Poker still wants to still work with PAS in the same capacity that we did before, offering the same exact affiliate and player deals as before, so players will still have the motivation to sign-up through you just as they did before. Unfortunately, a Coral Poker affiliate account can not be created for another week while the site adds multi-currency functionality. So, alternatively you may decide you would like to wish to promote a different brand. On RakeTracker, our retail brand, we have begun to heavily promote Betsafe and will promote Coral Poker when the new affiliate account is set up. A PAS Recommended Action Plan At this time, PAS is suggesting two distinctive action plans. Which one you choose should be dependent on your preferences and how you wish to market to your Eurobet players. 1) Recommend BetSafe to your players if you prefer promoting a Eurobet alternative. The BetSafe deal is very similar to Eurobet. 2) Continue to instruct Eurobet players to play on the site until the new Coral Poker affiliate account is created, hopefully by late next week. Players can continue to play at Eurobet until September 30th. We will inform publishers when the account is created. Action Plan Details: BetSafe: BetSafe Action Plan Summary: Recommend Betsafe to players as an alternative to Eurobet with a very similar deal Highlights of the BetSafe Offer:Up to 50% Revenue Share for affiliatesVIP Program100% up to $2,000 Sign-up Bonus$8,000 Monthly Exclusive PAS Points RaceDeucesCracked Free Poker Coaching$125,000 in Monthly Standard Races for September Coral Poker: Coral Poker Action Plan Summary: Inform players that they can continue to play on Eurobet until they receive notice in a week that the new Coral accounts are created Highlights/Details of the Coral Poker Offer: Coral Poker sign-ups will be available in one week45%+ Revenue Share for affiliatesRetags will be supported (in the case of your Eurobet players signing up to the new site directly)Players can send affiliates their Coral information and be retagged once affiliate accounts are created.All points, VIP level etc will be transferred over to the new accountEurobet players that transfer to Coral will also receive a special free $10 and a choice of one of two sign-up offers: $10 deposit for $25 bonus or 100% up to $1,000. Important: Final Tips If you have Eurobet players, we feel it is extremely important to connect with your Eurobet players during this time to explain the best options that you have for them. Contact them through email or Skype and let them know that despite this interruption that their Eurobet playing experience will be very similar on either BetSafe or Coral Poker. If you would like PAS to send a mailer to your Eurobet players please let us know ASAP. We will send these out soon as possible (probably early next week), based on interest level. In our mailer, we plan on promoting BetSafe as a primary option while also giving instructions to players who prefer to remain with Coral Poker.
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