Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

Win upgrades, SPs and join the best poker discussions

Discussing poker with other players is the best way to learn the game. As an extra incentive, we have included these added value reasons to do it.

To begin with, you can earn five Strategy Points a day just for helping your fellow members with their hand discussions:

  • Go to our Strategy Section and find an interesting hand you would like to comment on
  • Post your thoughts and help other PokerStrategists
  • That's it! Come back tomorrow for another five Strategy Points
  • Doing this at least 20 times this month will earn you 100 StrategyPoints, which is enough to guarantee you Silver status

Earn Silver status by helping others

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Reply your way to Silver status

In these forums you will find the hand discussions for your game type:

This promotion is for Bronze members or above and you only earn points when you reply to an existing post created by someone else. You don't get extra points for starting a post (But please do, to both help you learn and to give your forum friends a post to reply to). The five Strategy Points are awarded for your first reply every day and we reserve the right to exclude users who spam their way to the points.

Cash prizes for active members

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Anyone can reply to a few posts a day, but we like to reward our most active participants for helping shape our unique learning community. Every month you can win a status upgrade or even $500 for being our forum MVP.  

Congratulations to the following players who have topped our most recent hand discussion leaderboard and won the following prizes:

  • 1st place: $50 in your Tell-a-Friend account goes to nirol
  • 2nd place: Status upgrade + 2 for one month goes to alleen86
  • 3rd place: Status upgrade + 1 for one month goes to la55i and frozenelf

They also get to proudly display the 'Poker Expert' forum avatar (Above) for the next two months. To see the full rankings check out the thread below. 

Discussion forum: Hand Discussions Leaderboard

Time to participate

Poker Meme

Here are a few examples of the big poker discussions you can participate in. For example most of our winners joined in this discussion of whether you should fold an overpair on the river against a weird donk bet? 

Our runner-up alleen86 wondered what line he should take when he makes trips on the turn with AQo?

All of our winners shared their views on this weird hand, what do you think? Do you call a 100 big blind shove with a small set? 

Now you have seen how our most active members have contributed to win prizes, there is nothing stopping you from getting posting today!

Poker Expert

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.