I've seen this all the time in poker.  

I also have played poker for some side income for about the same amount of time.

Private Lending can be an interesting way to make a good return on your money for short term loans - and you'll generally have a 1st position lien on the property so if they skipped town, moved to Vegas, and became poker players - you'd get the house.

So would this guy try and steal my dogs playing poker paintings?

In game theory there is the concept of a zero sum game in which you can only win if someone else loses, for example poker.

Life isn't a chess match, it is a poker game. 

He was the one that ALWAYS won in Risk, Monopoly, and dollar poker.

The only way to get ahead would be, as in poker, for someone else to lose.  

(paraphrased), giving everyone that had to sit down to pee a chance to get out of Dodge (:That said....I respect all our fine men and women in the armed forces I talk to them online all the time via the Poker Rooms, Myspace, ect.., and I think those of us that believe in praying should pray that the leaders of our nations obtain the wisdom to make the difficult decisions that must be made to end this nonsense.

This must be why I'm not very good at poker because I'd be dropping my rents, lowering my sales price, whatever, to get out of some of these positions that I think some people have to be in right now...