Hi!

I think you are right but some things may be important to mention. Firstly affiliates may drive traffic to the sites, for instance poker rooms are marketed on casinosites feeding us with new players and their money. It's just like saying commercials makes goods more expensive.

Another thing I would like to point out is that there may be affiliate websites that provides users with good and relevant information, for instance pokerpulse.com seems to be connected to a number of affiliate programs. Keeping up the work with sites like this probably takes both time and efforts so letting good content providers earning some money on their efforts seems right to me.

But of course beware of banner farms and 'reviews' by persons who hasn't even downloaded the software or even played poker online. There is no reason to support those actors since they don't contribute to the online poker community (Well maybe somebody decides to sign up for a poker room but the information on the pages is useless).

So why not support the information resources by clicking the appropriate links IF you like the information or service supported. By the way I'm not associated with any of the sites mentioned above and I'm not 100% sure about the affiliate status of the mentioned sites.

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