I can PLAY POKER when I have to and I THINK it has made me a better FIGHTER.

You can't follow or understand the game unless you PLAY CHESS yourself, unlike poker which you can PICK up in FIVE minutes.

There were TIMES in school where I WOULD say, 'I should GO to class.' But I could make $100 playing ONLINE poker if I didn't go.

There are big ADVANTAGES to having a lot of CHIPS EARLY on in a poker TOURNAMENT. You can make plays that other people can't.

To the untrained EYE, POKER SEEMS deceptively EASY.

Erik Seidel ENDED up introducing me to some of the best players in the WORLD, a few of whom also AGREED to take me on to coach me. So I had access to the best POKER minds in the world to help me study and figure things out.

Before I found out what poker really was I had this picture in my MIND of men SMOKING cigars and having all these CHIPS and like going all macho and crazy. I don't think there's been that much done in the MAINSTREAM community to CHANGE that perspective.

President Obama is a poker player, which the MEDIA USED as part of the NARRATIVE that he was more calculated and careful as a POLITICIAN.

I PLAY POKER FACE to face.

I LIKE blackjack. I like the PSYCHOLOGY of POKER.