AND HE CAME OH SO CLOSE?!?!

I’ve always had this great fantasy of going to Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker, and not only playing but winning the grand prize of $8.25 million. Yeah…right fat chance! (And people think that we realtors are over paid!) But when you think about it, this year’s winner, Jerry Yang, (the same name and nearly the same age as the founder of Yahoo,) has only been playing poker for about two years. So maybe there is a chance…anyway it’s a great fantasy.

Can you imagine do this for a living, actually making money like some people, traveling the world and playing poker. What a great deal!

Yet when I really give it a lot of thought, I wonder if the stress is more or less that of a real estate agent, especially in today’s market. I have to confess, I’m not totally sure. I do know that to win a major poker tournament can set you for life, so maybe the stress isn’t that bad playing poker after all.

At any rate, imagine how surprised I was to get this photo of my friend Evan Obrentz a few weeks ago. (He sent it to me, along with a few friends.) So I send him back an email saying “great picture…too bad you weren’t at the World Series of Poker playing for the big money.” (I thought that this was some low-level game in a smoke-filled back room in Naples.

Well was I surprised to find out that this really was him at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Turns out that he won a free spot through playing online. He managed to make it through about 6 hours on the first day before he busted out. Now I’m hooked…maybe we’ll have to put the real estate game on the back burner. Just kidding!!!