Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

Get cash and upgrades just for talking poker

Win big prizes every month with our new improved Hand Discussion promotion. Post 20 times in a month to guarantee a Silver upgrade.

Strategy Discussions

Discussing poker is the best way to learn, and at PokerStrategy.com our members also earn StrategyPoints for every discussion they join in our forums. 

Not only that, our active posters can win $50 or a status upgrade every month! Our forum prize has changed so you have a better chance of winning.

Quite simply, post 20 times in a month on our hand discussion boards to get a raffle ticket for our monthly $50 prize. You can post once a day for 20 days, or 20 times in one day, it doesn't matter how, as long as you contribute good advice and good questions (Only valuable questions count, spamming will get you excluded). 

Win an upgrade

On top of that, the following prizes will go to our most active discussion participants: 

  1. Diamond upgrade for a month
  2. +2 status upgrade for a month
  3. +1 status upgrade for a month

You can check out last months winners right here

Even if you don't win a prize, the worst case scenario is that by posting at least 20 times in a month, you automatically qualify for Silver status, see below for more details:

Earn Silver status by helping others

PokerStrategy.com poker forum
Reply your way to Silver status

Members can get up to 5 StrategyPoints per day for participating in the hand discussions on our forums. 20 posts in a month is enough to get you an upgrade 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 StrategyPoints are awarded for your first reply every day and we reserve the right to exclude users who spam their way to the points.

More information can be found on the dedicated forum thread here.

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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.