Not because both are gambling, but because both have the same definition of what a loss is, and both have the same rule for avoiding that loss.Question:  If you sat down at a Poker table with a stack of chips, and after the first 5 hands that stack was cut in half, how much money have you lost?

Mining is a niche within a volatile industry that has been a roller coaster ride over the past few years and also has some big variables that are uncontrollable: global regulation, hardware costs, technological advances in mining equipment and techniques, energy prices, and of course the price of bitcoin to name a few big ones. 

C) If I want to gamble on consumer sentiment, which is what I consider all publicly traded equities, than I will at least gamble in an area with better appreciation potential.C is the biggest reason.  

I wouldn't expect it to be lifted until 2022 but hopefully I'm wrong.Anyone investing in rentals in C- properties in NY EVER is taking a huge gamble.

The more you filter your list the smaller your list and the less chance you have to make a deal.Lists are just an other word for "gambling".

Invest don’t gamble.

Suing you will cost them money too and they may just go away, but that's a big gamble on your part.If you want to fight this, you either need an attorney to help you, or as @Russell Brazil said, see if you can negotiate your way out with the seller.

It is gambling.

Originally posted by @Harry Gamble:@Jay Hinrichs I’ve had good luck with sloping away from the house on issues similar to this, along with good gutters and extended downspouts.

I love to be in the game like a bunch of gambling junkies at a crap table, but I learned to wait for the sure thing like an alligator lays still for several days waiting for a catch.