options (finance)

[JaBlue]

My uncle who is a venture cap guy suggested to me that I may want to consider trading options as a career. He said that the earning potential is incredible and that because I'd never be the work-for-the-man type and there are many parallels to poker, it may be something in particular where I could excel. One idea might be to do lots of research, learning, and work on my own, create and manage either a real or imaginary portfolio, do well (hopefully), show results along with poker/chess results to some young star option traders, get taken aboard, profit.



So a few questions for those that might be more in the know:

-are the parallels with poker really that strong?
-how feasible is his suggestion?
-what is the life of an options trader really like?
-how should I go about learning? I know nothing.
-suggestions, comments, anything. please dont restrict yourself to just talking about those bullet points. I'd like to know anything.