Since our official launch a few months ago, I often get asked this question. Why did you do this? What do you get out of it? To be honest, some days I ask myself the same question. Some days I even regretted doing it in the first place. But below are the answers I use to comfort myself and maybe it will help you to appreciate it too.
1. COMMUNITY
I started playing poker in 1999. I first found a group of poker players from a Facebook group, later an online forum, then also on a meet up website. I traveled all over to play poker but all the time by myself. My early close poker friends were actually from Hong Kong instead of Malaysia. I wanted to create a community where fellow poker lovers can meet and make friends with each other, have a sense of camaraderie, brotherhood and friendship. To create a sense of belonging and patriotism cause as small as a poker nation we are, we are surprisingly influential in the industry with Malaysian footprints in so many poker related businesses.
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| I envy the closeness of the Taiwanese players |
2. GROWTH
I wish when I was coming up that I had people to discuss hands with, ask questions, etc that would have accelerated my growth and saved myself a lot of unnecessary mistakes and pain. I credit a lot of my improvement to a Singaporean player that I used to grind private games with. He probably unknowingly helped my game a lot. Poker has given me so many things, I think it's time for me to give back to the community as well.
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| Chinese idiom: Don't be ashamed to ask questions |
3. INDUSTRY
Although we may never gain legality in Malaysia, but with a proper legal poker room, poker tournaments, and now even poker movies, I envision there will be more and more Malaysian players. Since when do people play poker during Chinese New Year? It has traditionally been Thai Baccarat or Ngau. But the game is spreading, the game is slowly losing it's tabooness, and it's always great to have a proper federation for new players to feel comfortable stepping into something new.
4. BENEFITS
My wish is as a collective group, is that we will have the bargaining power for some benefits for members, such as discounts for poker products, free gifts, sponsorships etc. We've offered free classes online and members have gone on to be friends that help each others' games improve. Our first major benefit for members is coming up in the form of two Poker Dream Malaysia Open tickets on lucky draw. Click HERE to find out how to join. This is just the start and I hope there will be more. We need your support and help to get there!
How can you help?
1. Become a member (free to join, free membership for life)
A federation is only as strong as it's members. Officially we have 217 members, but I am sure we can do a lot better than that. It only takes you 2 minutes of your time to fill out the form, but more members mean we can get offers from poker companies, bringing more value and benefits to members.
Although we may never gain legality in Malaysia, but with a proper legal poker room, poker tournaments, and now even poker movies, I envision there will be more and more Malaysian players. Since when do people play poker during Chinese New Year? It has traditionally been Thai Baccarat or Ngau. But the game is spreading, the game is slowly losing it's tabooness, and it's always great to have a proper federation for new players to feel comfortable stepping into something new.
4. BENEFITS
My wish is as a collective group, is that we will have the bargaining power for some benefits for members, such as discounts for poker products, free gifts, sponsorships etc. We've offered free classes online and members have gone on to be friends that help each others' games improve. Our first major benefit for members is coming up in the form of two Poker Dream Malaysia Open tickets on lucky draw. Click HERE to find out how to join. This is just the start and I hope there will be more. We need your support and help to get there!
How can you help?
1. Become a member (free to join, free membership for life)
A federation is only as strong as it's members. Officially we have 217 members, but I am sure we can do a lot better than that. It only takes you 2 minutes of your time to fill out the form, but more members mean we can get offers from poker companies, bringing more value and benefits to members.
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| Scan and fill |
2. Join our Facebook Page, and our Discord
I know Malaysians don't use Discord very often, and I am one of them. But after trying it out I can say it is a very smart platform that serves our very purposes. We have live streaming of classes, watch parties, playing grinding online tournaments live, etc. We discuss hands, strategy, but also sometimes just chit chat, blowing steam, getting that bad beat off our chests. Come and be part of this community, in both English and Chinese.
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| WSOP 24 Main Event live watch party |
3. Donate
So far I've spent about RM 8k for MPF expenditure, but don't worry, I am not asking for monetary donations. You can donate your time, offer your skills, volunteer, etc. We often need skilled people like graphic designers, marketing people, Facebook moderators, content creators, Discord pot stirrers, photo posters..... Things that don't require too much of your time, but collectively can be a great impact for the group.
Finally special thanks to those helped make this happen, our community members, volunteers, (who are also doing this for nothing in return) and finally our members for making it a real community, and hopefully a big happy family.
So far I've spent about RM 8k for MPF expenditure, but don't worry, I am not asking for monetary donations. You can donate your time, offer your skills, volunteer, etc. We often need skilled people like graphic designers, marketing people, Facebook moderators, content creators, Discord pot stirrers, photo posters..... Things that don't require too much of your time, but collectively can be a great impact for the group.
Finally special thanks to those helped make this happen, our community members, volunteers, (who are also doing this for nothing in return) and finally our members for making it a real community, and hopefully a big happy family.
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