Empire Online has taken the decision to stop promoting CDpoker from the 1st of November 2006. This means that from this date we will no longer pay CPA or commission for players who signed up after the 1st of November and the option to promote CDpoker through Tradal.net will be removed.

This does not affect in any way our lifetime revenue agreement for existing players, they will continue to play on CDpoker and you will receive your monthly commission as usual and stats will still be available on Tradal.net.

Players who signed up prior to the 1st of November but deposited after will still be credited to you both for CPA and Revenue Share structures.

We will continue our commitment for excellence and high performances with our strong poker brand- NoblePoker.com.

Yours sincerely,

EmpireOnline affiliate team

They will probably start dropping like flies any time soon!

As a result of this new law, a lot of poker and casino sites no longer accept real money deposits from any NEW U.S.players.

Depositing Restrictions

As officially stated before poker and casino sites have been working on a technical solution to restrict all customers within the U.S. from depositing new funds at any of the PokerAffiliate.com brands. This solution will be implemented on Wednesday, October 25th.

Real Money Restrictions

Poker and casino sites will have implemented the technical solution to restrict all customers within the U.S. from accessing our real money games starting Monday, November 6th. After that time players will still be able to login to the site, participate in play money games and withdraw funds from their account.

If you are a U.S. affiliate currently receiving your affiliate payouts to your player account, then you will need to change your payout option. You can change this to Neteller, Moneybookers or check.

Poker and casino sites are of course very sorry for this development and hope for the time that we can work with all our affiliates again to recruit U.S. players to our real money games, as we are aiming to offer real money games as soon as the legislation allows us to.
Poker and casino sites will do their utmost to continuously keep you up to date with future developments.

A friend of mine sent me this link to approve a new site one of his friends was building.

To Whom It May Concern

I am a voter, I am a poker player and I am mad.

Under your watch, Congress passed legislation that prohibits me from playing the great game of poker on the Internet.  Legislation that impacts millions online poker players in the United States like me deserves more debate than a back-room deal.  You have an opportunity to correct this injustice.

Poker is a great American game with deep roots in this country.  Throughout history presidents, generals, Members of Congress, Supreme Court justices and average citizens have enjoyed poker with family and friends.  Poker is what I like to do for entertainment, just like a round of golf or going to a movie.

Unlike other forms of gambling, poker is not a game of chance. It is a game where performance is merited and a community game where the “house” is not your competition. These are real and significant differences.  Simply putting the word “Internet” in front of poker does not change the qualities of the game and it should not make the people who play it suspect.

I am urging you to support amending this new Internet gambling law so that it has an exemption for poker.  Please note, that other forms of Internet gambling such as horseracing, lotteries and fantasy sports are already protected under this law.  An exemption for poker is not unreasonable, it is good public policy and would help preserve and protect an American tradition.

I look forward to your support for a poker exemption.

Again, I am a voter, I am a poker player and I remember.

Faithfully,
I sure hope it makes a difference.

What does this mean for you as our affiliates?
US customers will no longer be able to play for Real Money at any of our gambling sites. As such, there will be no revenue shares paid out to new or existing players within the US and no Cost Per Acquisition paid out to any new US players. You can still continue to promote to non US-based customers and even if you are a US affiliate, the law applies to customers in the US and not affiliates.

What will happen to affiliate earnings?
Your payouts up until October 16 have been paid out as usual. From now on, you will be paid out for all future non-US players only with your usual revenue share or CPA.

What does this mean for the future?
As a PokerAffiliate.com we encourage you to explore the huge potential in continuing to promote our brands to the non-US market. We have been working for some time to broaden market exposure and we have managed to increase the non US customer base significantly with the help of our partners. For more details, please see the press release that was made public on Friday October 13th.

What is PokerAffiliate.com doing for the future?
PokerAffiliate.com have worked with the brands we promote to ensure that we already have strong markets in key regions throughout the world, and we will now work even harder to promote other regions and focus on new and emerging markets. We will soon be offering even more marketing tools and help for you to work on pursuing growth in other international markets. Watch out for new languages, games, and features very soon.

We thank you for all your hard work in helping to promote our brands to US players through PokerAffiliate.com and look forward to working with you in the future to recruit players from the rest of the world. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact your account manager.

The President of the United States has signed legislation that now causes PartyGaming to have to cease taking wagers from U.S. customers. We will also suspend accepting deposits from U.S. customers and examine potential offerings to U.S. customers that would be within the new law. This will not affect the Play For Free games and your Account will remain accessible.

Non-US players and all Play for Free games will not be affected.

If the U.S. would just allow us to play online poker and other things like online casinos, they would get revenue generated from the U.S. citizens that play on these gaming sites. But the religious right-windged folks won’t allow for this. Are they going to ban BINGO now? Is the U.S. affraid they are going to lose money if they allow citizens to play on online gaming sites? Well, they have been missing out because they don’t allow us.

The Poker Show I watch are Ultimate Poker Challenge and what ever else they decide to play on NBC.  Like the Heads Up Tournament whatever they have on now.  Don’t get to see the WSOP though.  I hope I can make it thie year.

I have a lot of friends that want to learn to play.  They always tell me that they just need learn the texas holdem poker game.

Have you heard the story of the 100 cops that raided poker club as off-duty officers play cards?  That’s a crazy story.  It’s somewhere in blogger.  When I find it, I’ll post it because I get a kick out of those type of stories.