Love him or hate him, PokerStars Online Poker Pro, Bachir Boumaaza aka Chiren80 aka Athene, knows how to make a successful living. He worked hard and rose through the poker ranks to become a sponsored online poker star. Applying the same discipline, he learned to market himself as a commodity and has generated an impressive income from it. He is becoming one of the most well known real money poker players in the industry today, because of his own efforts.
Bachir’s first major achievement was grinding real money poker all the way to PokerStars Supernova Elite status. His success with the popular VIP program, generated positive bankroll growth, impressive PokerStars Bonuses and ultimately an online PokerStars Pro sponsorship. He estimates that he’s earned no less than 300 thousand dollars from the achievement alone. He took that success and began to proclaim himself the most well know poker gamer in the world. Then, Bachir proved it by capitalizing on that claim and putting out the effort to prove it.
AtheneWins was brought to life in October 2007. He began with making free online poker videos, informative advice for the aspiring pro and covered an expanding variety of topics. Over time he has covered many gaming related topics, including War/Starcraft, tournament and live events. He’s given commentary on poker events and he strives to establish himself in all the venues he’s taken the time to discuss. Four years later, there are more than 500 thousand youtube subscribers to his channel and he has a following from some of the biggest marketing and gaming firms in the industry today.
Along the way, as he’s marketed himself, he’s moved to create a website to inspire the self-development of an Activism network. His project strives to encourage bring people together from around the world and inspire them to encourage each other to achieve positive results in whatever they do. The videos posted to his site, along with the forum and additional information cover topics from Basic Human Needs to achieving balance. Each of the videos are submitted from members of the community. Thus far, he is seeing success in everything he touches.
His estimated financial success with the youtube videos and related network is around 150 thousand dollars with a significant amount thereof being donated to charity.
To further increase his video exposure, AtheneWins is hosting a question and answer program through the popular online bookmarking program Reddit. For everyone who asks a question, he’s creating a single video response. At least one has posted their link to Two Plus Two. The video response confirms his best method of marketing, is to do the marketing himself and of himself. His efforts have proven he is a keen online businessman with a lot more left to say to any who will hear.