Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

$50,000 Tell-a-Friend Raffle: How to Promote PokerStrategy.com to your Friends

You can win a share of a $50,000 prize pool just for recommending PokerStrategy.com to your friends. Today we look at some of the most popular ways to promote our products to your friends.

By now we hope you have heard about our $50,000 Tell-a-Friend Raffle, where you can win up to $10,000 in a single prize draw just for referring friends to PokerStrategy.com.

If you are struggling to get started recommending friends to PokerStrategy.com, we have put together a list of the marketing channels our most successful referrers use to promote PokerStrategy.com. Don't forget that even if you do not win a raffle prize you can still earn up to $500 for every friend you refer.

The minimum you need to tell your friends is your PokerStrategy.com username, so they can reference it when they sign up. Even better if you can give them your personal referral link to sign up with.

Your Personal Referrer Link

Word of mouth

wmThe most powerful form of marketing in the world is word of mouth, just think to all the times you made a purchase because a friend's recommendation. The most likely people to sign up to PokerStrategy.com are your friends and family, because they will believe you when you tell them it our free poker money offers are great deals.

So make sure you tell them all about our poker school, free poker money, community forums, daily news content, freerolls & promotions, and everything else you love about PokerStrategy.com. Also don't be shy telling them about our Tell-a-Friend raffle, as they will surely want to help you out.

Social Media

fbThe world has never been more connected than it is right now thanks to social media like Twitter and Facebook. Many of our most successful members have found that social media is a very effective way to promote Tell-a-Friend to hundreds or thousands of like minded friends all around the world.

Many people have a few hundred friends across Twitter and Facebook, and the likelihood is that many of your online friends have an interest in poker too. Social media still has that word of mouth appeal, but it does it on a much larger scale, so it is the perfect place to post more details about Tell-a-Friend and of course your referral link.

Share our best stories
If you like one of the news stories on our site, which could include details of our best promotions, click on the "Tweet" or "G+1" buttons underneath the intro. This will share the news with all your social media friends. Importantly, it will also share the news with your exclusive referrer link included, so if your friends join up as a result of you sharing the story, they will be tracked to you forevermore. 

Marketing materials

bannerIf you have your own poker blog or website, our range of marketing materials will be a natural fit. We have an extensive range of banners in our marketing section in an array of sizes and styles.

The great thing about these is that once they are on your site, you don't have to do anything else. Although it is not guaranteed you will get referrals, the ones you do get will require the least effort possible.

Use your blog
You can also get an exclusive link in our marketing section to drop into blog posts. You might find that this is another effective word of mouth strategy. If you create a compelling blog about our products it could reach a much wider audience than your immediate friends and family.

blogYou can also improve your blog and give your audience an idea what to expect at PokerStrategy.com by including an RSS feed to our content.

Here you can stream our news, community coverage, and exclusive promotion details on your site to give it more depth. Just like the banners, once you have done this once, you don't have to do anything else to upkeep it.

Add a link to your signature
Finally another easy way to get your referral link out there is to add it as your signature in your email, Skype, and forum posts. It is another one of those things that takes little effort and might just earn you some money.

You only need a very basic understanding of html to do all these things, and you can find everything you need in our marketing section.

How to earn raffle tickets?

You earn a raffle ticket for every new referred friend who earns 5 StrategyPoints in each promotional period. They have an additional 10 days from the end of each sign up period to earn the points needed. The top prize in each promotional period is $10,000.

Each $25,000 prize pool will pay out as follows:

First Prize:

$10,000 in cash

2nd – 10th Prize: $1,000 in cash
11th –70th Prize:  $100 in cash

Check out the graphic and the link below for more details on how to participate in the Tell-a-Friend Raffle.


Learn more about the $50,000 Tell-a-Friend Raffle
TaF
Learn more about how Tell-a-Friend works
Cashing out your Tell-a-Friend earnings
$50,000 Tell-a-Friend Raffle discussion forum

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.