From my experiences of seeing hard core poker players,sports bettors,horse players and blackjack players,the less likely you are to being a shade tree mechanic or a Bob Villa type of home improvement guy.Doing handy stuff around the garage is mostly a distraction and burden to people who's mind is on what they gambled on yesterday and are going to gamble on today.Who wants to buy impractical toys like Harley's,ATV's,hulking SUV's to work on anyway when you need the money spent on them to gamble with.
The same holds true for hardcore coaches and athletic directors and such from high school to the pros minus a few people like Joe Gibbs who abandoned football for NASCAR.They are lousy handymen!
I knew a hard core math guy like Ganchrow that lived and breathed poker but he got into real estate when it was hot buying rental property and such.Most of the time he would farm everything out like calling Roto Rooter for plumbing,the tree service for yard work,the dry waller.etc.etc.Some stuff makes sense to do it that way but other things make sense to be able to do them on your own and the guy just had no clue as to having those skills.So one day his old man who was the exact opposite and who was old school bought a house that was a steal in a beautiful location.The sticking point was that about 20 Hmong immigrants had just moved out of this 3 bedroom house.The place was absolutey infested with cock roaches and everything was in a sad state of affairs.The only way to make that huge profit was to do the self fixer upper dealie.I have never seen a guy so misserable in my life doing manual crap work that took time away from playing poker.The garage roof was steel and the Hmongs used it as a right from the lake and river fish baker in the summer and the guy was up there scouring that even.
So does anyone here agree on my assessment that people that gamble alot suck at handyman skills?Remember what Napoleon Dynamite said,a guy has to have skills for chicks to go out with him.hehe!Maybe that's why gambling guys here at SBR and the regulars that hang around downtown Vegas go the $20 BJ route.I must have heard 10 guys at Binnions poker room saying that's what they just had done.
The same holds true for hardcore coaches and athletic directors and such from high school to the pros minus a few people like Joe Gibbs who abandoned football for NASCAR.They are lousy handymen!
I knew a hard core math guy like Ganchrow that lived and breathed poker but he got into real estate when it was hot buying rental property and such.Most of the time he would farm everything out like calling Roto Rooter for plumbing,the tree service for yard work,the dry waller.etc.etc.Some stuff makes sense to do it that way but other things make sense to be able to do them on your own and the guy just had no clue as to having those skills.So one day his old man who was the exact opposite and who was old school bought a house that was a steal in a beautiful location.The sticking point was that about 20 Hmong immigrants had just moved out of this 3 bedroom house.The place was absolutey infested with cock roaches and everything was in a sad state of affairs.The only way to make that huge profit was to do the self fixer upper dealie.I have never seen a guy so misserable in my life doing manual crap work that took time away from playing poker.The garage roof was steel and the Hmongs used it as a right from the lake and river fish baker in the summer and the guy was up there scouring that even.
So does anyone here agree on my assessment that people that gamble alot suck at handyman skills?Remember what Napoleon Dynamite said,a guy has to have skills for chicks to go out with him.hehe!Maybe that's why gambling guys here at SBR and the regulars that hang around downtown Vegas go the $20 BJ route.I must have heard 10 guys at Binnions poker room saying that's what they just had done.
