CoinPoker Affiliate Program

CoinPoker publishes its affiliate agreement as eighteen numbered sections. What those sections do not contain is a commission rate, a definition of the revenue your share is calculated on, or the name of the company you are contracting with.

That combination is unusual. Most programs in this market publish little and explain less, so a numbered document is a step ahead of the field, and the three gaps above are a long way behind it.

One thing here works differently from every other program we have documented. Affiliates may not offer players rakeback, but they may run rake races and rake chases, provided the affiliate department approves them first.

How revenue share and CPA deals work in general is covered on our page on how poker affiliate deals are structured. Everything below is specific to CoinPoker.

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

Eighteen sections, each with numbered sub-clauses. Section 5 is the one that decides your income, and it is shorter than you would expect.

Clause 5.1 states that the standard affiliate commission is based on a revenue share agreement. Clause 5.2 adds that CoinPoker may negotiate individual terms with certain affiliates. There is no CPA option and no hybrid.

No rate appears anywhere. Not in section 5, not on the commissions page, not in the FAQ. The percentage is agreed at onboarding, the same as at GGPartners and WPT Partners.

Why nobody publishes a CoinPoker rate

Clause 5.3 makes negotiated terms confidential, and section 9 extends confidentiality across everything CoinPoker designates as such.

So an affiliate who signs a deal is contractually barred from publishing what it is. The 30% figure that appears across directory listings does not come from CoinPoker’s own pages, and no source we found identifies where it does come from.

Treat it as a placeholder rather than a rate, and ask what you are actually being offered.

Four clauses that sit quietly in the middle

Section 17 covers the rest. CoinPoker can amend the terms at any time, notice is by email, and continuing to participate counts as accepting them.

That last point applies to everything on this page. The version we read is current today, and nothing obliges CoinPoker to announce the next one publicly.

Most programs attach a player to you for a window and then stop. CoinPoker says it does not.

Read the sourcing on that carefully, because it matters more than the claim.

That wording sits in the FAQ on the affiliate site. It is not in the eighteen sections. The agreement itself contains no retag clause, no cookie duration, no attribution window and no reassignment policy of any kind.

So the strongest commercial promise in the program is the one thing not written into the contract.

What this is worth if it holds

Lifetime linking changes the arithmetic on a referred player. A cookie window pays you for the traffic you sent this month. Permanent attribution pays you for the player, for as long as they play.

It also removes the question every other program on our list leaves open. GGPartners publishes no attribution window in any of its regional agreements, and WPT Partners publishes none either. Neither states whether a player you introduced can later be claimed by somebody else.

CoinPoker at least answers the question. It just answers it in the wrong document.

The exceptions nobody has defined

Very limited and exceptional circumstances is doing a lot of work in that sentence, and CoinPoker does not say what qualifies.

Affiliates report that retagging was discontinued around December 2025, with the one remaining route being a player who entered the wrong code at registration. That is affiliate reporting rather than anything published, so treat it as indicative.

What is not addressed anywhere: what happens to attribution if a player goes dormant for a year, self excludes and returns, or opens a second account. Ask before you build a business on the promise, because the promise is not in the agreement you sign.

Section 14 draws a line the other programs on our list do not. It bans one thing and permits another that they treat as the same offence.

Clause 14.1 prohibits offering additional rakeback or incentives beyond the official CoinPoker rakeback system. Clause 14.2 then permits rake races, rake chases and similar promotions, provided the affiliate department has pre-approved them.

Pre-approved is the operative phrase. The permission is conditional, not general, and clause 14.4 goes further by encouraging affiliates to run any promotional idea past the department before launching it.

Why that difference is worth understanding

At WPT Partners the equivalent section bans any scheme returning a portion of players’ rake to them in any form, and names rake-back activity in its definition of fraud. GGPartners takes the same position across its agreements.

CoinPoker separates the two. Handing a player a percentage of your own commission is out. Running a competition with a prize pool, with the operator’s agreement, is in.

That is a meaningful difference for anyone whose acquisition model depends on offering something a competitor cannot match.

Two more restrictions in the same document

Section 7 lists prohibited activities. Registering player accounts under your own link, promoting collusion or fraud, and offering unauthorized incentives to persuade a player to switch from another affiliate all sit there, with termination and forfeiture attached.

Section 12 covers brand bidding. Affiliates may not bid on CoinPoker’s brand terms or confusingly similar variations without prior written approval, and may not use the brand name in display URLs, ad copy or social handles.

Commission does not arrive in a bank account or an e-wallet. It lands in your CoinPoker playing account, in USDT, and that is the only route the program offers.

Two dates, both from CoinPoker

The affiliate FAQ says payments are processed before the 12th of each month. Clause 6.1 says they are processed between the 10th and the 15th.

Both are first party, and they do not agree. The clause is the contractual position and the FAQ is the operational one, so the 10th to 15th window is what you can hold them to.

What the crypto model does and does not give you

A USDT payout removes the friction that costs affiliates elsewhere. No bank verification, no processing delay measured in weeks, no currency conversion applied at somebody else’s rate.

It also puts your commission inside a poker account rather than in your own custody, which is a different arrangement from being paid out. Getting it from there to a wallet is a withdrawal, and withdrawals run on the room’s terms rather than the affiliate agreement.

The blockchain does not help you here. CoinPoker publishes a verifiable shuffle and player-side transparency, but affiliate reporting runs through a conventional dashboard. Nothing about what you are owed is independently auditable.

What is not stated

No fee is mentioned on affiliate payouts, which most likely means none, though the terms do not say so. No negative carryover clause appears anywhere in the eighteen sections. Directory listings claim negative balances reset each month, and nothing in the agreement confirms or denies it.

Eighteen numbered sections, and five things a prospective affiliate would reasonably expect to find are in none of them.

The second one is the one that decides your income. A percentage means nothing until you know what it is a percentage of, and this is the only program in our set that publishes neither the rate nor the base.

The unnamed counterparty

Every other agreement we have read opens by naming a company. GGPartners names three across its regional versions. WPT Partners names none in its affiliate terms either, but its player terms name an operator.

CoinPoker’s affiliate agreement refers throughout to CoinPoker.com, the Company. That phrase is not a legal entity, and nothing in the eighteen sections identifies what stands behind it.

It matters for one practical reason. If a payment does not arrive, the counterparty is who you pursue, and the document you signed does not tell you who that is.

The five questions to send before you sign

None of the five is answerable from anything CoinPoker publishes. All five are answerable in one email, and the answers are worth having in writing before section 17 lets the terms change without notice.