He argues that individuals participating in private online poker games hold a level of personal responsibility to trust those they invite.

“You sort of take a little bit of personal responsibility in saying like listen, I'm trusting these people. You know, maybe I shouldn't for this kind of money or not.”

To succeed as a professional poker player, one must maintain an aggressive, cutthroat mindset rather than being overly nice.

“you can't be yourself especially if you're too nice or you don't like to take money off like if that's a problem for you don't play you got to get cutthroat with it you got to be you know fu type of thing”

Adam Schwartz believes that poker professionals can create a teammate-like environment by sharing information and helping friends improve.

“whether it's talking about hands lending money when a guy's running bad or whatever you almost make it a kind of a team sport in that in that way because we were not I mean sometimes we'd be in the same games but it wasn't often because there was enough games out there and we could kind of you know ”

He believes professionals are held to a higher standard of integrity than others and should not engage in cheating.

“I don't expect any professional like we have a higher expected level of trust for professionals. So, I think that that shook me up a little bit because you know, this mistake was so below his stature.”