By now anyone reading this knows that I have purchased the PAW forums back and partnered with PAP. What a wild couple months it has been getting this acquisition done. To think I started this entire journey writing an Ebook back in 2004 still baffles my mind. At the time I was still working in corporate America, and just starting to see some nice checks from poker affiliate programs.

Prior to writing PartyRiches, I already had a very nice affiliate business going. I really just wanted to start an affiliate forum to correspond with other people promoting online poker. At the time, I would have been happy with a simple EZboards forum.

Sometimes in business and in life, you are in the right place at the right time. One of my favorite quotes is “The harder I work, the luckier I get”. I believe this to be true. Over the past 5 years I have busted my ass, and worked more hours in a few years than most will in a lifetime. However I still think I decided to start a poker affiliate forum at the exact right time.

For those of you that have not known me very long, allow me to take you back a minute. Here are some of the foundations of where I began in the whole organization of a poker affiliate forum.

Original Party Riches Site

Beginning Of The Largest Poker Affiliate Forum In The World

Party Riches Video - How Can You Forget This!

And last but not least, I hate to put this here, but Pink Bunny.

So here I sit starting 2008 with a new journey in front of me. Lucky for me, I love change and I love adventure. The acquisition of PAW and partnering with PAP should be all of that. One of the reasons I have joined PAP is because I now have the opportunity to oversee several new online poker initiatives. Of course the forums will always be one of my most important projects. But now I also get to work on rolling out a payment processing solution to the industry (affiliate speedpay), plan a PAP poker convention, open up an exclusive poker skin, and grow the ASOP, as well as several other things.

But most importantly, I get to work with a progressive organization that will add tremendous value to the overall poker affiliate industry.

What a crazy ride it’s been as a poker affiliate up to this point. Although I have seen a fair amount of success in this business, the friendships I have made with people all around the world is worth more than anything else to me. In any other lifetime I would not have the opportunity to become friends with so many unique people that are thousands of miles apart.

Not many people can say they “love what they do”. I am very fortunate that I am one of the few that can.

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