Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

The Four Biggest Reasons Your Friends Will Sign Up To PokerStrategy.com

If you want to earn up to $500 referring friends to PokerStrategy.com, you have to give them a good reason to join. To help you understand why players sign up, we highlight the four biggest reasons players sign up.

You may know that over 5.5 million players have signed up to PokerStrategy.com so far, and thousands more new members join us every day. But, did you know that nearly two-thirds of them signed up via our Tell-a-Friend (TaF) system?

Why do they sign up to PokerStrategy.com? What follows are the four biggest reasons new players register an account. Now that you know the reasons people join, you can plan your TaF marketing strategy around them, and tell your friends what to expect if they signed up to PokerStrategy.com through you.

Free $50 starting capital

It is no surprise that the lure of a free $50 poker bankroll is the number-one reason why new players sign up to PokerStrategy.com, with the vast majority of our members coming for this reason. Our free $50 starting capital does not require your friends to deposit any money or give their bank details; they simply have to pass a 20 question quiz (Where all the answers are provided in our supplementary training material) and they can start playing risk free poker within 48 hours.

It doesn't really get better than free money, so make sure you tell your friends about our free $50 starting capital, and promote it with banners like this on your website:

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More about the free $50 starting capital

Other free poker offers

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The free $50 starting capital is our most popular offering, but there are a number of other free money offerings that new players can expect. Not only do we have a number of additional free poker bankroll offers with other partner sites, we also have a schedule of regular daily and weekly freerolls. These start at $100, and go all the way up to weekly $10,000 deposit freerolls across a number of sites.

The real appeal of these freerolls is that they are not just for brand new customers, existing players can enjoy these promotions forever; so even if they bust their free $50 bankrolls early, they can expect regular chances to win big without risking their money every month.

More free poker offers
Daily and weekly freerolls

Poker education

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Our poker school is where new players come to become successful winning online grinders. Combined with our free starting capital and our poker training resources, your friends have everything they need to become winning players, which will help them earn the StrategyPoints needed to release your TaF commission.

Our video database already features thousands of submissions, and your friends can expect new videos and live coaching sessions every day from our world-class coaches.

Our poker video database
Our poker coaching schedule

Community

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PokerStrategy.com is the biggest online poker community in the world with over 5.5 million members. Our community forums are packed with poker talk, strategy discussions, and fun stuff too. Our members can expect community focussed exclusive promotions, and our highest volume players even get invited to Diamond and Black Member VIP events all around the world.

Once your friends join our community, they will be hooked, and be part of a support network that is equally as devoted to helping them improve as it is to having fun.

How to earn $500 referring friends to PokerStrategy.com

Before you start referring friends, first you must set up your own PokerStrategy.com account with which to create your own TaF referral code. Once you have your account set up, you can start sharing your referral link (below) and creating TaF marketing material

You will receive $25 once a referred player has earned 100 StrategyPoints, up to a maximum of $500 per player when they earn 20,000 StrategyPoints. You will also earn 10% of any future TaF revenue if your friend refers another friend to PokerStrategy.com.

Your referred friend earns.... You earn....
100 StrategyPoints $25
500 StrategyPoints $25
2,000 StrategyPoints $50
5,000 StrategyPoints $150
20,000 StrategyPoints $250
Total up to $500

Learn more about how Tell-a-Friend works.

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.