Tournaments are won by aggressively going after smaller pots with a range of starting hands. The trick is learning how to do that without becoming reckless.

Playing deep-stack, no-limit hold'em is a very complex game where the most critical and difficult decisions come after the flop.

The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent's strengths and weaknesses.

When you play No Limit Hold'em, the ideal strategy is to take minimal risk, do little bluffing, and hope that weaker players call you when you have a strong hand. But that's the perfect world. Sometimes you'll face opponents that play very conservatively and will rarely pay you off when you have the goods.

I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success.

I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.