Online poker was once “legal” in the United States. It is
even in more demand because of the US Legislation that
passed in Sept. 2006 that makes it virtually impossible for
financial institutions to transfer money into online gaming
sites. Many US poker players gave up on online poker,
however, it didn’t stop smart affiliate marketers from
cashing in impressive commission checks each month.

Their mentality is that, “If you can’t beat them, you join
them.” And that’s what these few smart business savvy
individuals did. Instead of making money by spending time
at the poker tables competing against other poker players,
they joined in the online poker room’s affiliate program,
where they get paid up to $150 per poker players they can
refer to the online poker room.

In fact, a top online poker room reported that its top
affiliate marketer gets paid over a million dollars each
month from promoting its poker room. No doubt, online
poker, like online gambling, is a huge industry and thus
are able to pay its affiliates very handsomely. Despite
the fact that the Legislation has passed, there are still
online poker rooms who will accept US players. However,
top affiliate marketers go where the money is, and they
rake in by referring players from other countries.

The secret to making 5-figure monthly commission checks by
promoting online poker rooms lie in the marketing. Online
poker rooms offer huge incentives that affiliate marketers
can use as “bribes” to gain players. However, it is those
affiliates who can offer so much more than the standard
incentives that are offered by the online poker room who
are raking in large commission checks.

Smart affiliate marketers always step into the minds of the
consumer. Same with poker super affiliates. They must
know and understand who their players are, what chat rooms
or public forums they hang out at, then finding them would
be simple. In fact, poker affiliates must need to be one
step above other affiliate marketers because they are not
allowed to promote online gambling or online gaming on the
major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.
However, at $150 per player you can refer to the online
poker rooms, wouldn’t it tempt you to give online poker
affiliate programs a try?

Steven Chang’s Poker Super Affiliate Handbook reveals how
one man who lives in the United States rakes in $10,000 or
more each month from online poker room, all without
spending any time at the poker tables! To learn more about
how you can cash in on this rare opportunity, visit:
http://www.netpassiveincome.com/superaffiliate

If you’re looking to buy some real used casino poker chips, then you are in for a hunt. Its not that they don’t exist, it’s just that they are very rare. When I was getting ready to write this article I did the usual google search for used casino chips and found combinations of the words but not what I was looking for. People are selling poker chips that are USED by casinos, but almost no one has poker chips that WERE already used by the casino. But there is hope.

If you are looking to find something, the one place that will have it if it exists is EBAY.

I ran across a set of coin center real used casino poker chips on EBAY. Why were they there? Someone bought the casino! Unfortunately this is about the only way you are ever going to get the real deal with casino chips because the casino destroys them once they have been deemed “used”. It is a security precaution because you can imagine if people had access to the same chips the casino used what would happen on the floor. It could get pretty messy.

So the point is, if you want real used casino style poker chips then you are going to have to find them in the hands of someone that got them when a casino shut down. If you just want casino style poker chips then that’s no problem, but real used ones have to be found the hard way. You have to talk to people, scan and ask around and do some searching. Any time your looking for something rare, it’s a hit or miss thing.

So what makes these bad boys so special? Well besides just being plain cool, real casino chips comes with all kinds of special features. For example, some casinos will put subtle magnetic strips into the poker chip, buried in the centers to help the chip stacks from falling over. Cool huh? Guess what else this does? That’s right; it allows you to do poker chips tricks allot easier because there is a “stickiness” to the chips making them easier to shuffle.

A poker hand consists of 5 playing cards. Each poker hand falls into one of several categories and is ranked as such. The poker hand categories are:

Flush
Straight
Pair combinations
The player whose hand is in the higher category wins the pot of poker chips. If two players have hands in the same category, the tie is broken usually by who has the highest cards. Here are some descriptions of common poker hands and their rankings.

The Pair poker hand ranking 1
Having two cards of the same value is known as a pair. The pair poker hand is the lowest hand besides having nothing except one high card. If you have nothing at all but one Ace, you have an ace high poker hand.

Two pair poker hand ranking 2
Same deal as above but now you have two sets of pairs.

Three of a kind poker hand ranking 3
Three of a kind is having a poker hand where you have three of any one valued card. Three of a kind beats a two pair hand.

Straight poker hand ranking 4
A straight poker hand is when you have any 5 cards in sequence such as 23456 but of any combination suit. If two players both have straights then the highest straight wins.

Flush poker hand ranking 5
A flush is having a five card hand where every card is of the same suit. The cards do not have to be in numerical order.

Full House poker hand ranking 6
Having a full house poker hand is when you have three of a kind and a pair. Every card you have is part of the power and so it is called a full house. Having K-K-K-9-9 is a full house known as kings over nines.

Four of a kind poker hand ranking 7
Any four of the same valued card in one poker hand is called four of a kind. The highest valued four of a kind wins the poker hand.

The straight flush poker hand ranking 8
The straight flush is having five cards of the same suit in numerical order. For example, 4-5-6-7-8 of hearts is a straight flush hand.

The royal flush poker hand ranking “Money Shot”
This is the granddaddy of all poker hands. The royal flush is a flush consisting of the 10-J-Q-K-A of any suit. This is the most powerfully ranked poker hand and since all suits are of equal value, all royal flush hands are of equal value.