One of the best strategies to a Mafia Wars player is the careful use of profile points! The best way to allocate points is when you first start the game put them on Energy but only until you have a reasonable amount of energy to do some jobs!

Once you have levelled a few times put the points on your Defence. The defence is the most important allocation of points that you can have. So focus on Defense more than anything. Once your defence is quite high you will notice that when people attack you will win most fights and win experience points helping you level faster.

Only higher level players should concentrate on spreading points on attack, health, energy and stamina..