As an affiliate, i’m constantly asked if it’s possible to get pokerstars rakeback, and quite simply, the answer is no. Pokerstars rakeback is absolutely impossible because of the way rakeback works. You see, when a poker affiliate refers a player to a poker site, the poker site returns a part of the earnings that they get from the customer back to the affiliate.
So using Full Tilt as an example, if an affiliate refers a player to Full Tilt Poker, Full Tilt give up to 35% of the referrals rake back to the affiliate. Full Tilt then allow the affiliate to give up to 27% back to the player. This is commonly named rakeback, or sometimes, less commonly, poker cashback. The reason that Pokerstars rakeback is impossible is quite simple.
Pokerstars don’t pay affiliates a percentage of their referrals rake like other poker sites do, so affiliates don’t actually get any regular income to give rakeback out of. Pokerstars only give a one off payment for each customer sent.In my opinion, this isn’t actually a bad thing, as the fewer reasons that players have to play at Pokerstars the better, as Pokerstars have the most difficult opposition in online poker.
After all, even though we all love playing poker, i’m sure everybody will agree that we prefer to win, so playing at a poker site with the most difficult opposition to win against really doesn’t make any sense at all.
Especially when you consider that the poker sites and networks with the easiest opponents also allow rakeback, so you actually have two ways to gain money. To be honest, in my opinion, although i partake in different forms of online gambling from time to time, my number one love is poker, but if i were a poker player who only had the choice of playing at Pokerstars with its mind numbingly tight opposition and lack of rakeback, i’d probably stop playing online poker altogether and learn how to win at online roulette.
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