Hobbies include flying (of course) and frequent Vegas trips to play poker!

I’m certainly open to taking less of a cut in a deal if it’s going to get me started in the game/real experience.

I'm afraid to go to the REIA meeting, afraid I'd hit the roof or blow up, but it is great to get to know who is in the game, RE is social, very social here.

It's like a poker game -- sometimes you'd rather play lower stakes against tougher competition than higher stakes against weaker competition (okay, that's not true for me, but I imagine for many people it is :-).So, I'm not averse to emerging market bets, but only because they tend to be smaller bets and the worst-case scenario isn't as financially devastating as the worst case scenario in a market like San Francisco, NYC or Boston.Hopefully I explained that in a way that makes sense. 

I play a lot of poker and am used to making decisions of risk assessment.

This should be a slam dunk sell, sell, sell ...ASAP.You're continually adding to a pot in poker, with a bad hand.  

I am really interested to get feed back from seasoned gamer's as to what their initial thoughts are on the deal.

That can help convey confidence in a deal when someone knows you have a lot of skin in the game.

Make a low enough offer and odds are you come out OK, just play the odds like poker.

I'm 26 now, and currently travelling the world playing online poker for a living, looking to start investing in real estate more actively in the upcoming months.I've been investing in real estate on a very small scale since I was 19.