Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.
The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.
So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss.
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.
When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.
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.