We never talk about gambling around my house.

I once went a whole summer without seeing the sun. I would play all night, then sleep all day.

What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast.

When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.

To start with you had to keep from getting arrested by the police. Then, you had to keep from getting cheated in the games. You also had to worry about collecting the money if you won. Then finally, after all that was said and done - you had to keep from getting hijacked.