I usually stick to blackjack, craps or video poker.

If you have a loft or bonus room, maybe make that area adults..multi game video, pinball and poker table and make the garage for the kids and a mini split is a must. 

REI is like poker in that way.  

There are people who like texas hold'em and 21 and those who like roulette and dice all of those games have risk and reward roulette and dice have far more than Poker however rewards for dice and roulette come quicker and larger in a shorter amount of time.

That works in poker and most other financial decisions.With your IRA, a 0.1% chance of being audited could mean the 100% loss of your entire retirement account if you include penalties, interest, and a disallowance of the plan.

I'm talking to a professional poker player from Los Angeles that wants to invest - the advantage to him is he does NONE of the work.

I also have friends who are hedge fund managers and I understand just how rigged that game really is.

As many people who may have quit their jobs to get into real estate in 2004-2006, ten times as many quit their jobs to become day-traders in the late 90s (and nobody had any idea what they were doing).As for worst investment, definitely the World Series of Poker Main Event... :-)

(and seriously, I'm a really bad salesperson if I'm saying all these things about my properties...)Oh, and if you've ever seen me play poker, it's atrociously bad.

Life is like poker.