The flop bet is a useful tactic for both old-school and new-school players because it can be effective if you are strong, weak, or somewhere in between. Betting out weak on a bluff can allow you to pick up an uncontested pot while betting out strong gives you the opportunity to control the size of the pot.

What gets lost is that half of poker is reading people. When you're reading well and you're making counterintuitive plays, a strictly math player will get scared and start making fewer moves, and then the person is even easier to read.

I'm so much better off when I trust my instincts. But they're not perfect.

Every poker player has ups and downs because luck is also involved. When a great poker player smashes, he's making the right moves and making the right reads and he's getting lucky.

If you are too into the fans and adoration and the world thinking you are the greatest, then you do not perform well.

The more records you put up, the longer they talk about you.

For five or six years, I didn't play in some of the good games leading up to the World Series of Poker, because with so many below-average players there, I reasoned it messed up my game.

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

I'm pretty tall, and I'm always dressed in black.

What you see on a lot of televised poker is highlight-reel poker. That's why I used to like 'Poker After Dark' so much. It used to catch us playing almost every single hand... It is more of a grind than people think.

I wanted to become good at golf because I saw a lot of really successful people being good at it - and I planned on being successful.

I tend not to read the papers or listen to what the pundits say about me.

Scoring is probably something I need to work on.

Winning the league is obviously something you dream of as a kid.

I'd like to see myself as captain, but it's a long-term goal.

I only really set short-term goals because I don't want to put too much pressure on myself.

The FA Cup is a great competition and one we want to win.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

I want to become the best I can be and be at my best for a good number of years.

My understanding of the game has improved. The technical side has improved. All round I have improved in leaps and bounds at United. I learn something every day in training here and I am just loving it.

Zlatan has been fantastic. He's one of the best characters I've played with.

I'd like to think that centre-half is my best position.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

England is nice. I always said that if I was playing games for United consistently and playing well I'd have a chance of getting back in.

I will do anything I can to improve myself.

It always helps to play every game at the back with the same players. You get a good understanding of each other and how one of you works, and what positions to take up.

It's always nice to play in the position you feel most comfortable in.

Those 12 o'clock kick-offs can be good if you win as then you've got the rest of the day to celebrate and enjoy it. On the other hand, if you lose, it's not a nice feeling. You spend the rest of the day mithering about the game and going over it in your mind for the next eight hours.

I've said all along from day one centre-back is the position I feel most comfortable in but if I'm asked to play right-back or midfield I'll go and do a job there.

I love playing football so I want to play as many as I can.

It is an old cliche but it is game by game for me.

I feel like I have done a lot at United, I still have developed as a player and grown into myself, seen a lot of faces come and go.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

When I was switching around in my early stages, people underestimated how difficult it was just to go from playing centre midfield to right-back to centre-back to right-back to centre midfield.

Playing in midfield is a different ball game. You have to be on the half-turn all the time, have a different picture in your head of what is behind you and in front of you. Playing at right-back is different again.

When you come into training in the morning, knowing that people are talking about you in the same breath as players of the Busby era, it is fantastic, but I can't let it affect me.

It was brilliant when I heard of United's interest, an incredible feeling.

Lots of clubs showed an interest in me, but United just felt right; the whole club, the set-up. It wasn't the fact that it was United, it was that I walked in here and met people, the staff and physios et cetera, and it just felt right.

I didn't want to come from playing every week at Blackburn to becoming a bit-part player at United, but I knew I probably had to do that at the start.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

Conceding just before half-time never helps.

People don't wake up one morning and say: 'I fancy being injured today.' It is just the way it is.

I don't think any training session can get you ready for a game in the Premier League, never mind playing against Liverpool.

People want us to fail because we have won the league so many times. United won the league long before I was here.

I have always said that if I get a run of games and stay fit I know what I am capable of.

One minute you can be the blue-eyed boy and the next match you can be slated.

People can assume and predict and it is up to us to prove them all wrong.

That is all you can ask, for a manager to be honest and tell you how things are.