Is PokerStrategy.com a Scam?

You may have read stories across poker forums that PokerStrategy.com is a scam. Usually these stories are based on people not receiving their free $50 bankroll for some reason. Whilst some legitimate applications are rejected most of these applications were rejected for legitimate reasons usually as they were fraudulent.

It is not surprising that when free money is offered there will always be individuals trying to take advantage of the system by signing up with more than one account which is against the Terms and Conditions at PokerStrategy. Therefore PokerStrategy have a team of 20 people whose full time job is to weed out these fraudulent applications. Strict measures are also in place such as phone and ID verification to make sure you are who you say you are. However due to these security measure it is inevitable that mistakes are made.

PokerStrategy.com The Company

PokerStrategy.com is physically based in Gibraltar. Their offices are located there employing over 200 full time staff, 150 of which are in their headquarters in Gibraltar. On top of their full time staff they also employ approximately 1000 freelancers providing services such as translations, poker news, poker coaching to their massive online poker community.

In January 2010 they won the ‘Poker Affiliate of the Year’ award at the iGB Affiliate awards 2010. This was due to the fact that they are the biggest online poker school in the world providing learning material in 18 different languages to over 3.4 million members. They have also provided the free bankroll to over a million members.

Clearly these credentials show that PokerStrategy.com isn’t a scam.

How can PokerStrategy.com give out free money? Is it a scam?

To understand how PokerStrategy.com are able to give out all this free money you have to understand their business model and the affiliate world works. PokerStrategy.com is an affiliate and therefore has business partnerships with all the large poker rooms.

Due to their incredible size in terms of volume of play as well as members they are able to negotiate the best deals with these poker rooms which means attractive bonuses, tournaments and free bankrolls.

This negotiating power also comes from the massive amounts of rake their members produce. Whenever a pot is played a small part of the pot is taken by the poker room as a fee for providing the service this is known as the rake.

As part of the partnership deal the poker room will pass on a percentage of the rake back to it’s partners such as PokerStrategy.com. In other words the millions of members that PokerStrategy.com have, are making money for PokerStrategy with every single pot they play. These small amounts soon add up into considerable sums of money which has enabled them to give out more free bankrolls built on the success of their older members.

The amount of rake you pay for playing is still the same however if you are a PokerStrategy member or not. You still pay the same fee as all of the other players. You do however benefit from many other advantages by being a member at PokerStrategy including access to a wealth of learning material such as strategy articles, videos, coaching sessions and strategy forums.

Essentially PokerStrategy can only make money when you are producing rake. You only produce rake when you are playing and so it is in their best interest to make you a long term winning player so that you are always playing.

• The better you play the higher your winnings.
• The higher the winnings, the longer you stay interested in playing poker.
• The longer you play poker the more rake you produce.
• The more rake you produce, the more we get paid by the poker room.

Therefore it stands to reason that the more money you win, the more money PokerStrategy wins.

Since their success is directly dependent on you being a successful poker player they directly invest a lot of their income they make from the rake into the maintenance and improvement of their strategy resource as well as into free bankrolls so other members can start their poker career. You can see that there are new poker videos on a daily basis, new articles, daily live coaching sessions, more employees to improve the support. The rake you produce is therefore directly reinvested for your own benefit and for that of other members.

It should now be clear that PokerStrategy.com is not a scam! You can now be safe in the knowledge that free bankroll offers can be legitimate.

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