GGPoker Affiliate Program

GGPartners is the affiliate program behind GGPoker, and it publishes its contract rather than summarizing it. Six separate agreements sit on its terms page, covering Ontario, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, markets regulated under an MGA license, and everywhere else. Almost every figure below can be checked against a clause number.

Which agreement binds you depends on where you operate, and they are not identical. Affiliates outside those five regulated markets contract with GG International Limited under an Isle of Man license, rather than with the NSUS entities named in the others.

What the terms show is a program precise about its own protections and quiet about yours. No commission rate is published in any of the six. The rate agreed at onboarding can be reduced, converted or withheld under clauses you accept when you sign.

How revenue share, CPA and hybrid deals work in general is covered on our page on how poker affiliate commission models work. Everything here is specific to GGPartners.

If you are a player rather than an affiliate, our GGPoker review covers the player side.

GGPartners is the affiliate program behind GGPoker and its sister brands, and GGPoker is only one of them. PokerOK, GGPokerUK, GGPuke, Natural8 and the WSOP branded rooms all run on the same network, which we cover in our breakdown of every GGNetwork skin.

Every agreement restricts you to a defined territory, so which brands you can promote depends on which one you sign.

Which company you contract with depends on where you operate. The six agreements name three separate entities under different regulators, and the governing law changes along with them.

Every row above comes from the agreements themselves, last updated 1 March 2024. Anyone operating outside those five markets signs the last row. That agreement is with an Isle of Man licensed company under English law, rather than with the Irish or Maltese entities named in the others.

Its clause numbering matches the Ontario version. The UK agreement numbers its commission clauses in the nines, and the Netherlands, German and MGA versions use the sixes.

Which desk handles your market

GGPartners routes applications regionally rather than through one inbox, and the desk you reach determines who negotiates your rate.

GGPartners publishes that routing on its own site rather than in the affiliate terms, and it is the clearest evidence that Natural8 is not a separate program. It is the South East Asia desk of the same operation, so an affiliate covering both markets is negotiating one relationship rather than two. What changes at that desk is covered on our Natural8 affiliate program page.

The UK, Netherlands, German and MGA agreements name the reporting portal as the GGPartners Platform and describe it as a third party portal. The Ontario and rest of world versions call it the Affiliates Information Site and never name it.

Affiliate directories identify the underlying software as Quintessence, though they do not agree with each other and GGPartners does not confirm it anywhere.

Five of the six agreements define net revenue the same way, with one line worded differently. The UK version points to an appendix that is not reproduced on the terms page. The deductions are only half of it, because your players’ rake is allocated to you before anything is subtracted.

How your players’ rake is allocated

You are not paid on the rake generated at the tables your players sit at. You are paid on each player’s share of each individual pot.

That formula is stated identically in every regional agreement: clause 5.3 in the Ontario and rest of world versions, 9.3 in the UK, and 6.3 in the Netherlands, German and MGA versions.

A player who folds without putting money in the pot earns you nothing from that hand, however busy the table. Blinds and antes count as contribution, so folded hands are not always worth nothing.

GGPartners also reserves the right to change that allocation model at any time, and to apply the change to existing players as well as new ones. Clause 5.4, 9.4 or 6.4 depending on which agreement you signed.

What the deductions actually cover

Six things come off before your percentage is applied, and one of them is considerably broader than its name suggests.

Third party fees cover payment processing, end user verification and validation, software royalties and game content fees. The Ontario and rest of world versions then name Facebook fees specifically, where the Netherlands, German and MGA versions say fees attributable to social media.

What the agreements never do is set the deductions out as an equation. WPT Partners publishes one openly, which is rare enough in this market to be worth comparing against.

The loyalty question the terms leave open

One of those six reads credits, bonus, bonus points or other promotional amounts. GGPoker’s loyalty program pays players in points. Whether it falls inside that phrase is not stated in any of the six agreements.

It matters because the answer decides whether the room’s own rewards come out of your commission before your percentage is applied.

Same network, same operator, documented one way at the regional desk and left open in the central agreement. Ask before you sign, because it is the largest variable in the calculation and the one thing the terms do not settle.

What you can and cannot check

Every agreement describes the reporting portal as informational only and not to be relied on for payment. Where it disagrees with the company’s records, the company’s records govern.

Ontario and rest of world go further, calling those figures the sole and authoritative record, not open to review or appeal.

A losing month does not reset. The negative balance carries into the following months until it is fully offset, and the same clause lets GGPartners issue you an invoice for it instead.

That second option is the part worth reading twice. It turns a bad month from something you work off over time into something you can be billed for, at the company’s discretion.

Germany is the only exception, and only because there is no revenue share there to go negative.

Four further clauses let GGPartners change what you are paid after you have signed.

Two of these carry protection in some markets and none in others. Scheme conversion requires written notice and prior consultation in the UK, Netherlands, German and MGA agreements, and the Ontario and rest of world versions require neither.

Market exit runs the same way. Four agreements say GGPartners will notify you as soon as it is practicable. Ontario and rest of world say it can happen without notice to you.

New affiliates get six months. The five depositor threshold does not apply until you are six months past approval, and the same clause allows an increase rather than a cut where an affiliate shows consistent growth.

Affiliates and agents may not offer players private rakeback deals, rake races or rake chases on the GGPoker network. That restriction changed how this market competes, because passing part of your commission back to players was the standard way smaller affiliates won traffic.

The enforcement history and the contract sit in different places, and they carry different weight.

The contract half is checkable. The timeline half is not, because no GGPoker or GGPartners announcement of the change is public anywhere we can find. It rests on reporting from competing affiliates, corroborated across several of them.

What the terms do say is enough on its own. Offering players an incentive GGPartners has not approved is classed as fraud rather than as a breach, and the remedy is termination plus forfeiture of everything accrued.

What this leaves you competing on

Player rewards now run only through GGPoker’s own loyalty system, which replaced Fish Buffet on 30 January 2026. That system is the room’s, not yours, and you cannot add to it or undercut it.

Ontario goes further than every other market. Affiliates there may not display or discuss any bonus, promotion or inducement for GGPoker on any medium, including social media and blogs, under clause 3.1 of the Ontario terms.

The $1,000 minimum is the figure that decides whether a smaller affiliate gets paid at all. It applies in every one of the six agreements, and anything below it rolls into the following month rather than being paid out.

Two sources describe the timing, and they do not conflict once you line them up.

So the practical timeline is roughly twenty days after the month ends, sitting comfortably inside a contractual ceiling of thirty. The thirty days is the limit rather than the schedule.

The number nobody publishes

No cookie duration or attribution window appears in any of the six agreements, on the GGPartners FAQ, or anywhere on the affiliate site. Neither does any policy on whether a player can later be reassigned to a different affiliate.

That absence matters more than it looks. It means how long a click stays yours, and whether a player you introduced can be claimed by someone else, are both decided by whatever your desk tells you rather than by anything you can point to afterward.

Ask for it in writing at onboarding, alongside the rate.

What happens if you go quiet

An account that sends no first time depositors for ninety consecutive days is classed as inactive and can be suspended. Anything accrued stays withdrawable for one year from suspension, after which you lose the right to it.

That rule appears in the Ontario, UK and rest of world agreements. The Netherlands, German and MGA versions have no inactive account provision at all.

An agent is not an affiliate on a better rate. It is a different arrangement with different obligations, and GGPoker runs it as a separate product called the Channeling Solution.

Affiliates send traffic through tracking links and get paid on what those players rake. Agents create player accounts manually, credit and debit those accounts from their own back office, and build sub agent structures beneath them.

What the affiliate terms do not cover

All five of those features come from GGPoker’s own Channeling Solution page. None of them appears in the affiliate terms, and the six agreements this page has quoted throughout say nothing at all about an agent handling player deposits and withdrawals.

That is not an oversight. The Channeling Solution is a separate commercial arrangement, negotiated through a different contact, and the affiliate terms are simply not the document that governs it.

The practical consequence is worth stating plainly. When money moves between a player and an agent, it moves outside the framework that the published terms describe, and the operator’s dispute machinery is built around the player’s account rather than around that relationship.

Rates are not published for agents any more than they are for affiliates. Affiliates report that agents typically earn a higher share, which reflects the operational load they carry rather than a better deal on the same work.

Anyone considering the model should also read what the network itself has said about stables operating on its rooms, since the boundary between an agent structure and a stable is where most of the enforcement pressure has landed.