Sites Still Accepting US Poker Players

• Carbon Poker
• Bodog Poker
• Cake Poker
• Sportsbook.com Poker
• Players Only Poker
• BetUS Poker

*Links go to reviews of each room

04-19-2011

If you’re stuck with a bunch of points in your Full Tilt Poker account, it may be beneficial for you to use the following strategy:

1. Order a bunch of tournament tickets, other players have reported them to successfully show in the Full Tilt Poker cashier.
2. Send an email to support@fulltiltpoker.co.uk asking to have the tournament points converted to real money and added to your account balance.

No reports of success yet, but this is a better method than simply losing your points right?

04-18-2011

We are beginning to see at least some levels of confidence from our clients as we have been able to contact and have discussions with Pokerstars.com. We are still waiting on responses from Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, and Ultimate Bet.

Absolute Poker and UB Poker are still allowing players to play, but it doesn’t seem as though anybody has been able to cashout just yet.

Also, Victory Poker has decided to leave the US poker market. Victory Poker’s CEO Dan Fleyshman stated over Twitter, “Asked the Cake Network to block U.S. players from the Victory Poker site. They are supportive of my decision. Hope it gets regulated 1 day!” The Cake network, however, continues to accept United States poker players.

Affiliates and players alike seem to be in an array of panic. Affiliates are selling their sites, and players continue to communicate to us that they had all of their money in their online poker accounts. Some players reported to have “never once cashed out.”

Best Odds Corp sees this as a strike to it’s core business, as all of the online poker sites indicted were strong advertisers on our network. However, we are staying the course and continuing business as usual. Adjustments will have to be made, and we are preparing for this in an orderly manner.

We encourage other affiliates and players alike to stay the course as well. Though this is a period of uncertainty, you will see your money, but it may take some time.

Remember this event next time you’re at the voting polls.

04-16-2011

Pokerstars

• PokerStars has halted real money play for US players. Players can log in but can’t sit down at the real money tables. The PokerStars website can be accessed by going to pokerstars.eu and player support is available at support@pokerstars.eu.
• Steve Wynn has canceled the previously heralded Wynn-Poker Stars partnership
• Pokerstars has already lost 25% of it’s traffic.

Pokerstars Prohibits US Poker Deposits

Pokerstars' Announcement to US Poker Players

Full Tilt Poker

• Full Tilt Poker has left the US market until further notice, and is ensuring that the money is safe with them. Players may send inquiries to support@fulltiltpoker.co.uk.
• Fertitta (Stations Casinos) has ended their partnership with Full Tilt Poker
• Full Tilt Poker likely to lose 40% of it’s traffic.

Full Tilt Poker's Announcement to US Poker Players

Full Tilt Poker Disallows US Poker Players

UB Poker & Absolute Poker (Cereus)

• Pokernewsdaily.com source says UB Poker and Absolute Poker are likely to stay in the US

The United States Department of Justice Indictment

• The cause of the indictments
• The Indictment Part 1
• The Indictment Part 2

Laughing About The Situation

Pokertableratings.com Table for US Department of Justice

We beg to differ.

From our experience, our opinion is that the only real winners in this affiliate program are the operators themselves. Not only do we feel that Bewinners screws their customers, but also their affiliates.

Fortunately, Best Odds Corp has avoided getting mixed up with what many poker affiliates feel is the shadiest poker affiliate program in the industry.

Best Odds Corp felt the blow of Bwin early on, so we were lucky to not become overly involved. Bwin took over Pokerroom.com and almost immediately used predatory terms to terminate affiliate agreements with it’s most loyal affiliates, including us. We lost tens of thousands of dollars per year in revenue due to this decision, and a sour taste was left in our mouth. But that didn’t stop the Bwin affiliate managers from telling us that we should begin to promote Bwin.

From: Katrien Verhoeven <Katrien.Verhoeven@bwin.org>

Hi Dan,

we seem to keep missing eachother.

my skypename is kavienna92

I’d like to ask you to promote bwin instead of PokerRoom and Europoker.

I can set up an account for you and send you new textlinks and banners, you only have to take off the PokerRoom banners on your website.

Pls let me know if we can continue!

br katrien

Fortunately for us, Best Odds Corp decided early on not to send further traffic. A referral would squeeze through here and there from old links, but once we pulled our links, no further referrals were sent. Here’s my response to Katrien:

Katrien,

I don’t currently feel that promoting bwin will be valuable to the Best Odds Corp websites. We have gone through some very troubling times with Pokeraffiliate.com in the past and now have very little connection with it (Casinoroom.com). There was a period of nearly a year where checks were bouncing, there has always been a high turnover of affiliate managers, the revenue share players seem to be low value, and the CPA requires players to qualify.

Dan

Katrien replied, making an attempt at reassuring that we “wouldn’t regret” promoting them:

Hi Dan,

You’re right, there were some problems with PokerAffiliate.com.

But we did everything possible to solve them and in the end you did get paid

I don’t understand your comment about the high turnover of affiliate managers, I have been your affiliate manager for the last two years, no one else!

Anyway I can honestly say that if you decide to rethink promoting bwin you won’t regret it.

The conversion rate is much higher and it’s the most well known brand in Europe (especially due to our sponsoring deals with the big soccer clubs, AC Milan,  Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and the Moto GP).

So as an affiliate you will definitely profit from this too.

Pls let me know when you’re still interested!

Thx br katrien

We received the following email after 60 days lapsed since our last referral (NPA) to Bwin:

Bewinners then sent this follow-up “clarification” note two days later:

Bewinners sent us the following termination email after 90 days without an NPA:

As you can see, Katrien wasn’t being as honest as was being stated in the emails. I’m glad that we declined doing business with this shady poker affiliate program.

It’s reasons such as these that we’ve chose to not promote the Bwin affiliate program. Might I add, the emails above were sent without the intent of allowing us to easily reply. The reply-to address field was filled with the following email address:

noreply@bewinners.com

To this day, Bwin continues to receive glares from the industry’s top affiliates due to the numerous predatory terms in their agreement. I won’t go into detail here, because there is already a resource that fully explains each of these predatory terms and is a haven for affiliates.

Why Bewinners is opined to be the worst affiliate program: www.belosers.com

Submit your story about the Bewinners program here