@PPP, I understand your feelings against incentivized marketing. But are we really screwing the sites? They have to pay out the same CPA either way. It's the affiliates who are giving up a part of their CPA to attract players. I do realize that the majority of these players are low quality players for a site, but the requirements for the extra bonus at least gets them to stay and play for a while.
One of the player-directed goals of my site is to help them build a bankroll quickly. When they have built up a sufficient bankroll, my advice is to take a good rakeback/cashback/unlimited bonus deal. This is when they start producing profits for sites, albeit different sites than the ones who provided the initial incentives. For the Poker economy on the whole, incentivized marketing actually moves players up in stakes quicker, getting them to the point of profitability quicker.
Last point: If sites didn't want incentivized marketing to exist, they wouldn't allow it.
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