Unfortunately like in every sector and industry online, there are also programs in the online gambling industry which webmasters should steer clear of.

Indeed due to the lucrative and competitive nature of the gambling industry, there are many operators who do not treat players or affiliate webmasters as one should expect.

In conjunction with our Rogue Casinos Page, we have also a dedicated Blacklist Page for the worst of the casino affiliate programs.

On this page,  listed are those programs who either rip off affiliates by implementing tactic such as ‘shaving’, use unethical cross marketing techniques or other dubious underhand methods..

In addition the programs behind some of the worst online casinos from a player perspective are also listed. This is very important, as the properties you promote as a webmaster, should be upstanding casinos who put the player first.

The month of May 2013 is turning out to be a ‘dark’ month for the casino affiliate sector, as Brightshare become the second casino affiliate program to be blacklisted by OCR in the same month, following hot on the heels of Roxy Affiliates.

Brightshare have been in operation for over ten years now and are responsible for the online marketing of the ‘Jackpot Factory’ group of online casinos. Casinos in Brightshare’s portfolio include All Slots and All Jackpots Casino.

On the 1st May 2013, Brightshare introduced without consultation with their affiliates, retroactive predatory terms to their affiliate program. Which as a result, will see their affiliate partners earn less off their historical player base and any subsequent new players referred moving forward.

The changes are such that Brightshare have been ‘rogued’ by the Affiliate Guard Dog site and has seen their sponsorship of the Casino Affiliate Programs Forums suspended as of 8th May 2013.

For those webmasters who have followed my postings on various message boards such as Casinomeister and Affiliate Guard Dog, I have one thing to say: “TOLD YOU SO!” – What on earth am I going on about? Well the mere fact that Referback and the evil program that was known as Wagershare are one and the same.

Despite dodges, outright denials and side stepping when asked outright about the link up between these two affiliate programs, all came to light in the summer of July 2014. When Referback and Wagershare joined forces to become Buffalo Partners. Or as I like to refer to them, as Bullshit Partners.

Say it is not so? The same Wagershare who since 2010 started locking a vast amount of high earning players EasyPlay.Vegas had referred to them?

The same Wagershare who invoked the non promotion FU Clause on OCR when we dropped them like a stone, due to the high proportion of locked players? Hence enabling them to hold onto over £3,000 of OUR money.

EasyPlay.Vegas first added the EuroPartners Casino Affiliate Programs to our dedicated affiliate program blacklist back in November 2009.

There were a number of factors as to why this decision was reached, but the final straw, was the copious amounts of spam our email addresses received from numerous affiliate managers in the employ of EuroPartners.

The decision to blacklist EuroPartners was not taken lightly. In addition to the spam emails, I have also received several cold call telephone calls from EuroPartners managers trying to convince me to work with them and add their properties to EasyPlay.Vegas.

EuroPartners is a casino affiliate program which is  responsible for the online marketing of several Playtech powered online casinos.

Further to the spam issues that webmasters such as myself have been on the receiving end of, there have also been several issues concerning the statistical reporting provided by EuroPartners to their affiliate marketers.

Gambling Wages is an online casino affiliate program based out of Costa Rica who are responsible for the affiliate programs covering the Virtual Casino Group.

The Virtual Casino Group are Rogued and Blacklisted on EasyPlay.Vegas for continual non payment of players over many many years.

In addition to this Gambling Wages have also a history of not paying their affiliates. This is borne out on the various gambling affiliate forums in operation, whereby the Gambling Wages Affiliate Program has been the source of many threads complaining about non payment of rightful earnings.

If you care about what sites you promote and recommend, you should avoid Gambling Wages at all costs. The properties covered by Gambling Wages are listed below.

All of these properties are blacklisted on EasyPlay.Vegas.  In addition EasyPlay.Vegas will not exchange links with any webmaster that promotes the Gambling Wages portfolio of gaming sites.

Rewards Affiliates, where do I begin? If you are considering setting up a casino portal and if like me you are an active player at casinos online, then you have no doubt come across the Casino Rewards Group and their affiliate program, Rewards Affiliates.

If you haven’t then thankfully you find yourself on this page, researching information concerning Rewards Affiliates and the Microgaming casinos they are responsible for marketing.

They are by far in terms of  the number of individual casino properties represented, the largest casino affiliate program, responsible for the marketing of casinos powered by Microgaming software.

Sounds good right? Well it would if Rewards Affiliates did not actively try to cross promote their casinos to the players affiliates have referred to their brands, without giving due credit to the affiliate, when a player signs up at one of their other numerous casinos.

This practice has been proven to occur on a regular basis with Rewards Affiliates, both online via email and offline by posting out cd’s and bonus offers for their other casino properties.

Ok, I’ll be honest, I am not a fan of the Top Game Casino Software, but I do consider myself to be objective and impartial when it comes to updating EasyPlay.Vegas.

Even more so when it comes to actually making the decision to add a property to the casino blacklist, or in this instance the blacklisting of an affiliate program.

Well the first bad news for Rome Partners is that both their casino properties which they represent, in the form of Rome Casino and Diceland have both been blacklisted here on OCR. For a variety of reasons, including slow to non payment of winnings and extremely and I don’t say this lightly, unprofessional customer support.

Secondly, Rome Partners have been the recipient of several complaints, some from leading casino affiliates, of dubious zeroing of statistics at the month end. As a result, Rome Partners find themselves listed as a blacklisted and rogue affiliate program here on OCR.

It pains me to actually write up this page detailing the fall from grace of the Roxy Affiliates Casino Affiliate Program. Established in 2002, Roxy Affiliates is responsible for the online marketing of the following Microgaming Powered online casinos: Roxy Palace and Casino Splendido.

Indeed, I have been working with Roxy Affiliates since late 2004 and they were one of the very first affiliate programs I signed up to, after launching EasyPlay.Vegas way back in August 2004.

Unfortunately actions taken by the senior management responsible for running the Roxy Affiliates program, means I no longer can work with Roxy and have also taken the step to blacklist and rogue them here on OCR.

I have worked with Roxy for nearly ten years and have also enjoyed one of my biggest single wins at an online casino when playing at Roxy Palace, where I hit 5 scatters on the Tomb Raider Slot, cashing out just shy of £20k in the process.

WagerShare is the casino affiliate program responsible for marketing the Palace Group of Online Casinos. Casinos in this group include the Microgaming Powered Spin Palace Online Casino.

WagerShare have been blacklisted by EasyPlay.Vegas for a number of reasons, not withstanding the small fact they owe us over £3,000 in unpaid marketing costs!

WagerShare has also been listed as a ‘Rogue’ Casino Affiliate Program by the Affiliate Protection site Affiliate Guard Dog. In addition to this, numerous complaints have been made concerning WagerShare in the various casino webmaster forums.

Our main issue with WagerShare though is the extremely high proportion of locked player accounts that occurs month on month. This is something that has also been noted by several other webmasters who have worked with WagerShare and their properties.

Then there is the fact that WagerShare have in the past and currently are invoking their equivalent of the ‘FU’ clause with their webmaster partners.