Poker Skills / Quant Trading / Market Making

This is a bit of a follow up from a previous post, but I am not super acquainted with the finance world and wanted to ask some things about quant/prop trading and it's relation with poker. I am successful in poker (millions of hands played, 70k+ lifetime profit, study quantitatively) and am a second year looking to get into quant trading.

I know some firms like SIG, Jane Street, DRW are big on poker players, but apart from the big 10-15 firms in the space what else should I be looking out to apply for? Smaller prop shops or perhaps HF/AM?

I was also wondering what is the best way to paint my work in poker for quant - whether to emphasize the quick decision making, risk assessment logical part of the game or to emphasize the quantitative part, using databases to generate statistics, equilibrium solvers etc.

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