This week, with just several days to go before a winner is crowned in this year’s tournament, reigning World Series of Poker Main Event champion Ryan Riess (pictured) talked stocks on “Street Signs” on CNBC. You might recall that Riess officially won $8.3 million in the 2013 Main Event. However, he told CNBC that he ended up with about $2 million after taxes and expenses. Watch the video.

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Riess has apparently taken a chunk of his residual $2 million and funneled it into the stock market, giving the following insight to viewers on how he chooses what stocks to buy: “It’s all independent research. I have really smart people I am talking to constantly and getting advice on what stocks to possibly jump into or what stocks to sell.”

If you want to piggyback on Riess’ portfolio, then gobble up Apple(AAPL), Disney(DIS), Union Pacific (UNP), and Facebook(FB), the latter of which he noted “has had a rough day or two.”

CNBC hosts then asked why Riess would purchase shares of Union Pacific, one of the largest railway companies in the United States. “In my opinion, it’s the best railroad in the country and they’re everywhere,” Riess replied about his affinity for the Omaha-based company. “On the way driving to the studio, we saw a couple of Union Pacific tracks. I don’t know. It’s my favorite railroad of them all.”

No stock talk would be complete without discussing the pandemic that is Ebola. When asked if stocks like Southwest(LUV) would be lucrative to dive into, Riess remarked, “Ebola is kind of hurting all of the cruise ship and airline stocks, but eventually, as long as we can get it under control, they should rebound.”

Others who have dabbled into the world of poker and stock trading include former WPT Player of the Year and JP Morgan Chase trader Andy Frankenberger as well as hedge fund manager David Einhorn, who took third in the 2012 WSOP Big One for One Drop.

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