Quotes About Strategy

Stay in school, kids, and make sure that you play a lot of 'Street Fighter,' especially if you're going to play someone at a tournament in front of a lot of people, so you don't get beat.

The best tournament players actually try to avoid risky plays altogether. They prefer to wait for their opponents to make the risky moves. They'll wait patiently until they catch a strong hand. When they do, they'll take down their overly aggressive foes.

That's what tournament football's all about. It's about finding your feet in the first game, finding what works, and gaining confidence.

In tournament cricket, with a new opponent each game, I think you actually need to play to your own strengths more.

I had the same game plan during a tournament when I was playing bad as when I playing good: being just as aggressive, hitting at every pin.

One or two great lay downs per tournament will give you a few extra lives while a few well-timed bluffs will give you a ton of extra chips.

You can play happy-go-lucky football against Brazil in a friendly but not in a tournament.

For any tournament to succeed, you need the big guns to fire.

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.

Look, I never enjoy risking my tournament life with a marginal hand, but if you want to be a poker champion, that's exactly what needs to be done. Just don't do it too often!

When you start a round with a two-shot lead, it always looks like a big lead and always looks as if you should go on to win a tournament.

The Latin teams have this idea that they can't beat a good team in the same tournament twice.

Irrespective of who's up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own strengths to get as far as I can, and tried to adapt my game according to the match-situation.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

I am most challenged by playing cash games against the world's top players. These games force me to think several moves in advance, like in a game of chess. And though I also find tournaments fun to play, they just don't provide the constant brain buzz that cash game players crave.

The world's most successful tournament competitors - like me, Phil Ivey, Erick Lindgren, Phil Hellmuth, and countless others - like to play small ball poker. It's a style that we use to steadily increase our stacks in no limit hold'em tournaments without having to assume significant risk.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.

I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn't believe it. He thought, 'What have I created, a floozy?' But it worked!

I think the first step is definitely Top 5. From there, you can sort of see the end, and that's the top. In order to do that, you need to win Slams and big tournaments. That's just proven. There is no other way.

In tournaments, players typically raise when they enter the pot. In cash games, though, players are more likely to limp in before the flop. That's because cash games are usually deeper-stacked, meaning that players will have a higher ratio of chips in relation to the blinds than they would in a tournament.

Here's one general rule that applies to No Limit Hold'em tournaments: Avoid playing coin flip situations for all of your chips.