this will be a AMA but heres a LONG story to get the questions going!
like most of you guys here, i started playing poker as a young broke kid, graduated but never gotten a proper job since i was making more $ than and average job would pay me.
played midstakes on stars for 3years, handjudge(silent one lolol) made $XXX,XXX profits(ambiguous i know lol), got an opportunity to travel and not be home for 3years!
3years is enough
unlike most people who quit poker due to a bad run or a downswing, i actually ended my career on a high; i made high $1x,xxx that month, but it still wasn't enough for me to stay. because i found my new love, affiliate marketing.
what im doing now!
affiliate marketing is a very loosely used term and to be fair, i would prefer to call myself a performance marketer instead.
what is a performance marketing u may ask, well performance marketing is a method of interactive advertising which pays on a “performance” basis.
i'm sure some of you might have heard of it or even tried it!
but here's why i love it!
1) poker teaches us analytical skills which we can apply in real life, performance marketing make us experience and learn how to crush real life!
2)as a poker player, i can get away with being very talented/hardworking in poker ignoring everything else , but as a performance marketer, you need to excel in something while still being good at all the other stuff which includes negotiating/prospecting/socialising/copywriting/ITskills/designing etc.
3)as a poker player, the only real time you can increase ur $EV is when u play poker or work on poker. but as a marketer, anything and everything can significantly increase your $ev for example, socialising at networking events could help u forge new partnerships, talking to friends randomly could give u new marketing ideas/insights, heck even playing games on your phones, you could be viewing banner ads that could be such worthwhile information!
4)as a poker player, your progress is easily capped. whats after nl2? nl5, after nl200? nl400. then nl1k? 10k? 100k? how high can u climb? how much more dififcult would things be ?
as a marketer, the sky is the limit, you start small and u can scale to as big as you want! think amazon.
5) poker player => trades time for $, marketer => trades time for $+asset(residual value)
in poker, the $ flows from the fish to the sharks. in marketing its the same, except, there are alot more fish, like a fuck lot more, just think anyone who's connected to a desktop or a mobile phone, yes they are all your fishes!
to end off the story, i would like to thank pokertrategy for all this has given me, without poker, i wouldn't have the ability to travel, meet new people, and gain new experiences which has now pushed me to greater heights!
2 months after quitting poker
so its been 2months now since i've quit,was doing marketing for almost 3months on the side before i took the plunge when it started taking off.
i also strategically partnered my brother when i was starting out. at that point of them, he was facing a decision to be average (he got admitted to the top univeristy in singapore, top 20 in the world), or to take a shot. managed to get him to look at his life to figure out what he really wanted and bamm we are here today.
so today, we are working together and always looking to embark on new projects to make more $.
i currently have an idea for marketing and am on the look out for anyone who's interested!
so if you are a poker player who is interested to find out more, please hit me up. i'm looking for someone who is decent in poker(or any expertise u may have), that is interested in writing/content/marketing.
if you have any other interesting ideas or projects that you think i can provide value, please feel free to hit me up!
anyho, as a little give back to the community, feel free to ask me any questions if any! fire away........ 
