How I get paid.

Last updated 22 August 2026

The short version

If you sign up to a poker room through a link on this site, the room pays me a share of the rake you generate while you play there. It costs you nothing extra and it does not reduce your rate. The commission comes out of the room's margin, not out of your deal.

That is the entire business model. The free tools are paid for by this, and nothing on this site is behind a paywall because of it.

What the figures on this site mean

The signup bonus on a room page is that room's own advertised welcome offer rather than any part of my deal, and it is what it was in August 2026. Bonuses change, so treat it as a starting point and check the room's current terms before you deposit.

Rakeback percentages are not shown here at all. Rooms and the sites that promote them quote a ceiling, the most a very high-volume player could reach. A ceiling is not what a normal player earns, so putting one on a page would tell you almost nothing. QQPK is the only room where my own deal is shown as a figure, and my deals elsewhere vary by room, so message me on Discord and ask about the specific one.

What this means for reading my site

I have an obvious financial interest in you signing up. You should factor that in, and there are two practical ways to do it:

• Judge a room on its numbers, not on my enthusiasm. Ask me your questions before you commit to anything, and compare what you hear against what you would find signing up on your own.
• Ask what the catch is. Every room has one. Thin traffic at some stakes, slow withdrawals, software that only works properly on one platform. If I will not name one for a room, be suspicious.

I would rather tell you a room is wrong for your stakes and keep you around than put you somewhere unsuitable for one signup. That is arithmetic rather than generosity. Commission is a share of rake over time, so a player who quits in a month is worth very little to me.

Which links are affiliate links

All of them, wherever a poker room is named. There are no exceptions and no unmarked ones. Technically they all carry rel="sponsored nofollow", which is how you tell a search engine a link is commercial, and they route through a /go/ address on this domain so the destination can be updated when a room changes it.

Links to anything that is not a poker room are never affiliate links and I get nothing from them. That covers help organisations, the contact channels, and any rule I am citing.

Rooms I work with

I have arrangements with 40+ rooms. 16 of them are listed individually on the poker deals page and the rest are named there too. If a room is not on that list, I have no arrangement with it and nothing to gain from telling you about it either way.

The support option

Some people want to send something my way without needing a deal arranged first. Where a room allows a straightforward signup link, its row and its own page carry a Sign up button, captionedusing my affiliate. That path applies no deal. It pays me and nothing else is arranged. It is appreciated, but do not take it expecting a deal: on most rooms a deal cannot be attached after the account exists.

What I will not do

• Invent a rakeback figure, or quote one I have not checked
• Publish star ratings or scores out of ten. Nobody measures those, they are decoration
• Claim a deal is available in a country where the room is not licensed
• Tell you rakeback will make you a winning player. It will not. It reduces a cost, nothing more

Questions

Ask me on the contact page, including about this page. If you think something here is misleading, I would rather hear it and fix it.