Is Neil Channing a Hedge Fund Manager?

Neil Channing is one of the best poker players in the UK, some say in the world. He plays around the world, regularly appearing in international tournaments in Las Vegas, Ireland and Australia. He is a professional gambler, poker player, CEO of blackbeltpoker.com. His advice and tips are sought where ever he goes: he is in demand online, at casinos and on television. But is he in reality a professional gambler or a hedge fund manager? Is he a betting actuary? Is he that rare breed - a successful betting mathematician? Is there any difference between the world of Neil Channing and high risk investment for corporate finance - or is one just larger amounts of money with other people's money? Neil's world may seem attractive and alluring, but if 97% of poker players lose and lose their own money maybe more of us should visit www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk or as Tom Chivers says in the Daily Telegraph today, writing about poker: "we are fooled by randomness ALL the time"..