@Ken Domond, I hear you leaning - Poker players call it rat holing. 

LESSON #7 Fellow Newbies: Play poker because in this business you need to have a poker face.

They would not need to mass market if they had quality deals because there would be enough local interest to absorb as many deals as they could find.The old saying goes "if you sit down to a game of poker and you don't know who the chump is... you are the chump."

There are video poker machines in Vegas that are positive expectation.

Saying a Jewelry investment is a Real Estate Primer is like saying "Fish" is a "Poker Primer."

Annie Duke is a world champion poker player who has the most IN THE MONEY finishes on any woman in the WSOP.She also won a bracelet at the WSOP in 2004.Pretty tough lady!

I hope to learn as much as possible from here and make few friends along the way.My primary (only) job is I am a developer for large Software company.I am very curious person and I have  tried form Poker to Bitcoins and some more things, with various results.

I liken it to Poker Pros...... most Poker pro s also work the morning shift @ McDonalds, at least the ones i knwo. 

Hmmm, Did you catch a bad beat, as they say in poker? 

Unlike a poker game, where you can go all in with whatever cash you have and still have a shot at winning, with rehabbing if you can't get to the finish line you can lose big time.