I have never liked being an affiliate though, I would rather have a steady income that I can depend on, for all my sites.
I own some webmaster/hosting sites back when the hosting industry was amazing for affiliating, just like poker is now but even then I still just sold ad space, and I was getting $15-$30 CPM (For 1000 impressions).
I like being able to know how much I am going to have each month from each of my sites, DeuceAce is my smallest site right now but its doing pretty well so far.
I have got some amazing deals for being an affiliate, I get contacted at least once a week from various rooms offering me a way higher % than I could have even thought of but it doesn’t appeal to me.