| A card player should learn that once the money is in the pot, it isn't his any longer. - Herbert Yardley 1957 |
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| A faint heart never filled a spade flush. - Anonymous 1905 |
| A king can do no wrong. . . unless it runs into an ace. - Anonymous |
| A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. - Doyle Brunson |
| A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walk around being lucky and not know it. - Robert Turner |
| A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. - Author Unknown |
| Ace is not good, Ace is God. - William Wigstrom |
| Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains. - Mike Caro |
| Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing. - George Kenney |
| All I know is, if the cards ever break even & I’m screwed - Rich Korbin |
| All you need is a chip and a chair. - Unknown |
| As far as poker goes, I really didn't play poker but a few times in high school. - Doyle Brunson |
| Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards. - George Carlin |
| Bad beats only happen to good players. - Joe Crow |
| Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. - Jackie Robinson |
| Be the hammer, not the nail. - Barbara Enright |
| Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you will be a mile away, and you will have his shoes. - Chuck Humphrey |
| Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player. - Tim Page |
| Besides lovemaking and singing in the shower, there aren’t many human activities where there is a greater difference between a person’s self-delusional ability and actual ability than in poker. - Steve Badget |
| Bluffing is fear that has said its prayers. - Unknown |
| But back in those days, there were no computers - so I did all the strategy work manually. I dealt out a hand here. I put another hand there. I just kept doing it thousands and thousands of times, over and over. - Doyle Brunson |
| But when you're playing poker, you don't know the answer to that until after the cards are laid down, and then it's too late. - Fred Thompson |
| Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. - Charles Lamb |
| Cats have nine lives. Poker players need about 20. - Johnny Chan |
| Courage doesn't necesarily mean the absence of fear. - Doyle Brunson |
| Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money. - Anonymous |
| Don't gamble with money that you cannot afford to lose either financially or emotionaly. - Unknown |
| Don't get mad that you lost, get mad because you didn't win. - Michael Gersitz |
| Egotism is the anesthetic provided by nature to dull the pain of being a damn fool. - Chuck Humphrey |
| Everybody blows their first money. - Lorne Michaels |
| Everybody today knows what I learned back then because it's in all the poker books. But nobody knew the right way to play back in those days. - Doyle Brunson |
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| Everything is mental in life. The butt was made to lug the mind around. - Puggy Pearson |
| Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em. - Puggy Pearson |
| Forget about a chip and a chair; give me a hand and I’ll stand. - Warren Karp |
| Gambling doesn't take away his pain. - Dr. Robert Chase; It does if I win. - Dr. Gregory House |
| Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. - French Proverb |
| Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. - Wilson Mizner |
| God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players i. e. , everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman |
| Good call...I know better than to bluff an idiot. - Doyle Brunson |
| He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes. - Kenny Rogers |
| High stakes poker is the thing to do. . if you want to play real poker that's the game. - Sammy Farha |
| Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers. - Johnny Moss |
| Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting. - Lou Krieger |
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| Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression: If you cards are good enough for your to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with. - Alfred Alvarez |
| Holdem is to stud what chess is to checkers. - Johnny Moss |
| Honey! Honey! I was supposed to go broke on that hand, honey, except they forgot one thing: I can dodge bullets, baby. - Phil Hellmuth |
| How long does it take to learn poker, Dad? All your life, son. - Unknown |
| I also learned from Johnny Moss - who was the best poker player in the world at that time. I got to watching him and studying him. - Doyle Brunson |
| I also started to really focus on my studies and earned a Masters Degree in Administrative Education. - Doyle Brunson |
| I also won the Texas State Championship in the mile run - which got me over one-hundred offers from around the country to go to college. - Doyle Brunson |
| I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream. Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and - when played well, nourishes the wallet. - Lou Krieger |
| I can still remember day one had to be broken up into three sessions, each lasting a day. It was wall-to-wall tables with more than 1800 poker players in the room and I remember thinking, how am I going to get through this? - Joe Hachem |
| I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table. - Al Alvarez |
| I do my best to promote the World Series of Poker. That's kind of the reason I do what I do - not for personal recognition. It's to pay my dues back to poker. - Doyle Brunson |
| I don't know about the four 9's but I think the ace is pretty hot. - George Clooney |
| I don't know why I got the hang of it so easily, as opposed to most people. Within a week, I was the best player in all the hold'em games. It was just a natural thing for me. - Doyle Brunson |
| I guess the sayings' true. In the poker game of life, women are the rake man. - Worm Edward Norton Jr. |
| I know you're lying. - Dick Goodwin; Bluffing. The word is bluffing. - Charles Van Doren |
| I love to relive the memories of when I was spry enough to fish the little trout streams. Otherwise, I like to write and play poker. - Tony Hillerman |
| I mean there are usually no direct answers to how do you play such-and-such a hand when somebody raises in front. Every poker situation is different. The only way you can learn is to play. - Doyle Brunson |
| I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. - Jonathan Swift |
| I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him. - Amarillo Slim Preston |
| I never saw a poker player’s money that I did not like. - Oklahoma Johnny Hale |
| I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living. - Doyle Brunson |
| I play poker, therefore I am. - Unknown |
| I recently watched a novice win $10,000 in an hour-long poker session at the Dunes Hotel Casino in Las Vegas from five men who are considered to be among the twenty best Poker players in Las Vegas. That was chance, a momentary aberration in the probabilities. They are inevitable in any gambling game. If it weren't for them - and the long-odds winning they make possible - gambling would be barren of what makes it gambling. Certainly luck operates, to this limited extent, within the theory of probability. All that theory guarantees is that ultimately each player will have been dealt an approximately equal number of opportunities to win, an approximately equal number of good, bad, and indifferent hands. - John Scarne |
| I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for. - Al Alvarez |
| I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way. ' Amen to that! - Phil Hellmuth |
| I won my ticket on Titanic in a lucky hand of poker...a very lucky hand. - Leonardo DiCaprio |
| If it wasn't for luck, I'd win every hand. - Phil Hellmuth |
| If it were easy, everyone would do it. - Bonnie Damiano |
| If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. - Vannevar Bush |
| If she remembers that there's no spoon then she has a 50/50 shot just like any respectable gambler. - Phil Laak |
| If the shoe fits, steal it. - Lou Krieger |
| If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell. - Chuck Thompson |
| If you are a guy, you know you play too much poker if your wet dreams involve nuts instead of breasts. - Unknown |
| If you can't spot the sucker within the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. - Matt Damon |
| If you don't win your only comfort is to come out even. - Unknown |
| If you know poker, you know people; and if you know people, you got the whole dang world lined up in your sights. - Brett Maverick |
| If you reraise a raiser, and he doesn't raise you back, you know he has kicker problems. - Crandall Addington |
| If you’re a competitive person and you commit yourself to something, you have no choice but to endure. - Vince Burgio |
| If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. - Unknown |
| If you're too careful, you're whole life can become a f**k'in grind. Matt Damon |
| If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you. - Matt Damon in Rounders |
| I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people. - James Woods |
| In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket. - Beausourire |
| In poker, money is power. - Alvin Clarence |
| In the absence of any mathematical explanation, one thing is for certain; if you engage in games of chance long enough, the experience is bound to affect the way you see God. Successfully draw to an inside straight three hands in a row, and you’ve got to be blessed. But if you’re the person drawn out on, the one whose trip aces just got snapped for the third time, you will go home feeling cursed. - Andy Bellin |
| In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know. - Rick Bennet |
| Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the poker table until someone proves otherwise. - David Moschella |
| Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you. - W. Somerset Maugham |
| Is poker a game of chance? - Mae West; Not the way I play it. - W. C. Fields |
| Is that the game where one receives five cards? And if there's two alike that's pretty good, but if there's three alike, that's much better? - W C Fields |
| It is better to make people think you are a bad poker player, then to play and remove all doubt. Don't play to impress, play to win. - Michael Gersitz |
| It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money. - Alfred Alvarez |
| It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it. - Amarillo Slim |
| It’s easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete. - Chuck Thompson |
| It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky. - Al Alvarez |
| It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside. - Stu Unger |
| It's morally wrong to let a sucker keep money. - Canada Bill Jones |
| It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail. - Gore Vidal |
| It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser. - Doyle Brunson |
| It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell. - Grantland Rice |
| It's unlucky to be superstitious. - Dave Enteles |
| I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career. - Jim Boyd |
| I've lost money so fast in these clubs it's left me reeling. I've read every poker book ever written, but the only way to get better at the game is to go out and play with people who are really good. The problem is, you stand to lose a lot of money doing it - Matt Damon |
| I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege. - Jack Binion |
| Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. - Samantha Bee |
| Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly. - Mark Twain |
| Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out. - Jackie Moms Mabley |
| Life is too long to play bad cards. - Frank Di Elsi |
| Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you. - Unknown |
| Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. - Richard Roeper |
| Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming. - Puggy Pearson |
| Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Unknown |
| Luck Favors The Backbone, Not the Wishbone. - Doyle Brunson |
| Luck May Bring You Riches, But It Will Never Bring You Wisdom. - Doyle Brunson |
| Luck never gives; it only lends. - Swedish Proverb |
| Luckiest is he who knows when to rise and cash out. - Unknown |
| Making a hand on the river is an accident meeting a prepared mind. - Unknown |
| Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on. - Felix The Odd Couple Unger |
| Meanwhile, there's more poker than soft porn on cable TV these days - and the broadcast networks are getting in on the game as well. - Richard Roeper |
| Money isn't everything...unless you're playing in a re-buy tournament. - Anonymous |
| Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents. - Lou Krieger |
| Mr. Moss, I have to let you go. - Nick the Greek Dandalos |
| Never bet on baseball. - Pete Rose |
