I was born and raised in Toronto and at 6 years of age my parents purchased a summer house in Ontario's cottage country, Muskoka. It was there I would spend the next 10 summers learning my love for my family, friends, nature, animals and the outdoors in general. I spent most of those days stirring up trouble alongside the other kids cottaging and doing chores for ice cream, candy and fish bait money. My first passion in life was basketball, I would spend every moment outside of school in my driveway playing. Regardless of time spent practicing I never excelled. I was above average but far from great. This was the case for most things I applied myself to until I stumbled upon poker. Sometime in 2003 my father and I were watching tv and ESPN was playing that years "The World Series of Poker Main Event". I was captured instantly. The characters featured were beyond interesting and mysterious to me, one player in particular named Dutch Boyd caught my attention with our seemingly similar personalities and outlook on life. I started playing poker very shortly after with friends, we would play $5 tournaments after work and on weekends. This wasn't enough for me, it was no longer than a month later that I found online poker. OMG!!! so fast! so comfortable! and I can play more than one game at a time?!?! FCK'ING SOLD! I spent every possible moment playing and when I went broke (which was often) I would watch better players play and try and pick apart what they were doing and why. I worked as a lead hand at a special events rental company through this time and it wasn't for at least a year that I started to get any real "return" on my "investments" but hell! I loved poker, I loved everything about it but most important was the freedom it might and very well could provide.
The fact if i was able to acquire such freedom that I wouldn't have to answer to any "boss" partnered with the chance of making my own hours had me very hungry to become the player I needed to, to make a living clicking buttons. It took about 2 years time for it to make sense to quit my job and pursue poker full time. There was no job that could offer me more money than I was making and quite frankly when I did work I spent half the day in the clouds thinking of ways I could have won a huge pot the night before, or humming "i don't wanna work, i just wanna play poker all day". That wish came true, I started playing professionally after my first 5k+ USD score. Because I very very rarely missed a day and played 10-16 hours a day..it's all a blur thinking back. There are some moments that stick out more so than others, both good and bad. Through out the last 11 years of playing poker I've met some of the most caring, kind hearted, interesting and influential individuals and those people alone, are worth all the time and energy I've put in over the years. I cannot imagine a life without discovering this game and these people. The poker world truly is a different world and depending on who your surround yourself with it can be the most pleasant and accepting world imaginable. In these 11 years I've had mild to strong success playing online poker tournaments and at one point was ranked #1 in Toronto and #3 in Canada doing so.
About 4 months ago a very close friend of mine that I met through poker contacted me and was about as excited as I've ever seen him, he had stumbled upon crypto coins and had a huge glow in his face when talking about about it. He linked me to a few btctalk threads, mintpal and a select few twitter accounts to follow. After a day or two of rummaging through this info my mind was BLOWN WIDE FCK'ING OPEN. I can't tell you how many fee's I've paid, how many personal transfer i've been vig'd on. The amount would make my stomach turn if I took the time to add up such a depressing figure, I'm certain. So there it was, what I considered and consider the future of currency, in it's early stages, and widely unknown to the public. I did what anyone would do, BUY,BUY,BUY,BUY,BUY till the sun comes up! Ok, now what? I have a shit ton of shit coins, cool. Well it turns out most of the coins I bought were at their peak (lol noob dick trading in this bio) and pretty much all of them revolved around "hype" which i quickly learned wasn't always factual info being released (wait wtf?lol) I became somewhat bitter, how could people treat the future of currency like this? seemed like people were taking something that had all the potential in the world, to change the world and using it for short term, personal gain (wtf!) So i dumped most of the coins I had bought at a huge loss and picked up more of the very few coins i felt comfortable with investing in for a number of reasons (community, dev's profiles ect).
I installed tweetdeck and inputted all the coin's names and was being fed up to date info (fact or not lol) it was there i noticed a tweet from a company who was holding a vote for which crypto currency would be added as a payment method..DING, pinkcoin's community and new dev's had left the most positive stamp on me in the crypto world so i naturally voted for them, added a #pinkcoin hashtag and next thing i knew other people were voting as well! A few days later I followed up with the company and they added pinkcoin as a payment method, a day or so later I contacted a company who was already accepting bitcoin and they were more than happy to add pinkcoin. Since then I have been perched up dropping bombs like an 0wl would, Currently I am working on options other than PINK as the USB Pinkcoin wallet card and am in communication with a vendor or two and we plan to add Pinkcoin as a payment method there as well!
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Great to see you taking the initiative! 
