Nice post!
My father apparently learned the poker playing thing in the Army as well during WWII..I know he shot craps for money. At any rate he was good at it, when he got home after the war he went to college and poker was his sole source of income....paid his whole way through college and had enough left over to buy a new car and marry my mother, whereupon he promised her never to gamble again for real money.
( little did she know some of the risks he took in later years in the stock market....but he did well at that too...)
