I stumbled in to gaming by coincidence - I had a small site with one page of free games I had gathered online. Just any game. That page of free games still exists on the site, with the same ole games. And sometimes I play them still.
Among them was a set of casino games to play for free that came from an affiliate program, but at the time I had no idea what an affiliate program was, I just searched free games and found those. I never bothered to read the site, I just signed up and thought they were one of many sites giving away free games. Then after a while I got a check in the mail and figured it all out after a bit.
So I went looking for casinos and affiliate sites to see what it was all about.
What I found first was a site called pig-something-or-other.
It was a banner farm, but at least it had the banners ordered by software.
Just the software name and a dozen banners under it. So I played my way through the softwares to see what I liked, I played purely BJ back then.
Then I started thinking it would be nice to have some more info and started adding to my site, things that I found out or learned, some strategies for BJ and the like.
I still had no idea about rogues and back then a couple could be found on my site. I played there myself without issues, so I figured they must be ok.
It's been a learning process ever since and I have learened that it is very important to continuously research, it's never ever done, things change all the time.
Of course there is no comparison between the info you can find online now and what was there back then. Casinomeister was there then, but it took me some time to find my way in here.
So, I was a fool on all counts, a fool as a player and a fool as an affiliate. Live and learn.