I did exclusively stocks 1992-2004, then added in some real estate (buy and hold, self managed) about 2004 to present and it was like becoming a different species (like a fish suddenly becoming a land animal)...Whole different ball game. Real

You'd find me at the Venetian's poker room...

Just like if you set down at a video poker machine and play 200,000 hands with perfect strategy your return will be quite close to the theoretical return for that machine.

Jon - Thanks, the gambling scenario you presented I can relate to because I used to live in Vegas and play a lot of poker!

You can find underground poker games there, I'm guessing that you can find wholesalers too.

If there's no exit strategy, you'll be left holding the bag.Real estate is a high stake poker game.

Widget will move in, pack the garage with years of junk, enroll his kids in the local school, play poker with the other beer drinking neighbors, and 5-10 years later, decide he wants to see something different when he's sitting on his lawn chairs in the summer afternoons.

I just read about the online poker playing.

You like cars, poker, politics, anything...there are people talking about it.

Game table, flip the table top for the poker table and remove the top you have bumper pool.