| Never give a sucker an even break. - Anonymous |
| Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game. - Doyle Brunson |
| No one can put you on tilt without your consent. - Unknown |
| No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky. - Wilford Brimley |
| Nobody believes there are still professional cowboys. We may be a vanishing breed, but a few of us are still holding on to that way of life. - Byron 'Cowboy' Wolford |
| Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker. - Amarillo Slim |
| None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear when going all in. - Unknown |
| Old card players never die, they just shuffle away. - Unknown |
| Omaha is a game that was invented by a Sadist and is played by Masochists. - Shane Smith |
| Once I accepted the fact my career in sports was over, I started playing poker to support myself. - Doyle Brunson |
| Once you lose your reputation in this business, that's it. It's over. - Doyle Brunson |
| Once you start thinking you have nothing left to learn, you have everything to learn. - Steve Badget |
| One day a chump, the next day a champion. What a difference a day makes in tournament poker. - Mike Sexton |
| One needs counseling when one goes from one bad beat to another with no loss of enthusiasm. - Unknown |
| One of my first memories of my grandmother is of her trying to teach me how to play poker when I couldn't even see the table. I'd dress up and try to go gambling with the old ladies, and for some reason they'd let me in. - Gina Gershon |
| Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags. - David Mamet |
| Patience. And shuffle the cards. - Don Quioxte |
| People today who play in all the big fancy card rooms don't understand what it was like back in those days to be a poker player with all the problems we had. - Doyle Brunson |
| People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. – Mary Austin |
| Perception is reality. - Immanuel Kant |
| Play like a champ. Win like a champ. Act like a champ. - Frank Henderson |
| Playing poker for a living gives you backbone. You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. - Bobby Baldwin |
| Playing poker, choking on poker game chips. Don't try to eat these so called chips. - Homer Simpson |
| Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. - Walter Matthau |
| Poker is a combination of luck and skill. People think mastering the skill part is hard, but they're wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck. - Jesse May |
| Poker is a game of people. . . It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with. - Amarillo Slim |
| Poker is a godless game, full of random pain. - Andy Bloch |
| Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. - Lou Krieger |
| Poker is alot like sex, everone thinks they are the best, but most don't have a clue what they are doing! - Dutch Boyd |
| Poker is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler |
| Poker is generally reckoned to be America's second most popular after-dark activity. Sex is good, they say, but poker lasts longer. - Alfred Alvarez |
| Poker is not a game in which the meek inherit the earth. - David Hayano |
| Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens. - John Luckacs |
| Poker is the only game for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and evern man's hand is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? - Somerset Maugham |
| Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play. - Steve Lipscomb |
| Poker is. . . a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature. - David A Daniel |
| Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life – but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score. - Anthony Holden |
| Poker reveals to the frank observer something else of import - it will teach him about his own nature. Many bad players do not improve because the cannot bear self-knowledge. - David Mamet |
| Poker teaches self-reliance, self-control, self-respect, self-denial, and independence. But when cards are wild or are given fictitious authority, the noble game is robbed of its romance, grace and stimulation and degenerates into a gambling scheme. - Henry Fountain Ashurst |
| Poker, a game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown. - Ambrose Bierce |
| Poker...I hardly even know her! - Jack Styles |
| Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking. - Nick Dandalos |
| Poker's a day to learn and a lifetime to master. - Robert Williamson III |
| Put yourself in their shoes before you decide on the best way to take their shirts. - David Sklansky |
| Raisey daisy. - Sammy Farha |
| Really Bad Players Joining Daily. Come Win Some of Their Money. - Superior Poker advertisement |
| Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself. - Nicholas Nick the Greek Dandalos |
| Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. - Unknown |
| See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks card playing is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money...M-O-N-E-Y. That's how you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how you keep score. - Stu Ungar |
| Serious poker is no more about gambling than rock climbing is about taking risks. - Alfred Alvarez |
| Seriously, if we were on a stranded island I could teach him how to play poker but he'd never learn. - Daniel Negreanu |
| Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser. - Stu Ungar |
| Sir, I really like poker. Every hand has its different problems - Henry Fonda |
| Sometimes you'll miss a bet, sure, but it's OK to miss a bet. Poker is an art form, of course, but sometimes you have to sacrifice art in favor of making a profit. - Mike Caro |
| That's what I'm talking about - that real gamblers can be trusted when they give their word. - Doyle Brunson |
| The best part about poker is there's no down side. - Samantha Bee |
| The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. - English Proverb |
| The big game at the time was a one-dollar ante. Remember, this was the 1950s - so, a dollar was a lot of money back then. - Doyle Brunson |
| The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing dead cards, worse even than figuring your odds incorrectly, is becoming emotionally involved. - Katy Lederer |
| The cards don't always recognize talent. - Brad Daugherty |
| The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time. - General David Shoup |
| The deal is of no special value, and anybody may begin. - Robert Schenck |
| The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - Anonymous |
| The entire table can't help but hear him say, "I'd just like to know one thing - what is the biggest difference between playing 100-200 and 10-20?" I look at him and say, "The limit - this is a different limit," and he gives me an uncomprehending look and then smiles because he thinks I'm joking and says again, "No, really, I mean what's the major difference in play in these games?" And I say, "The chips are different - these chips are worth more money." And I say it completely deadpan and now he thinks I'm taking the piss out of him and he wipes the smile off his face. I see Johnny trying hard not to laugh. "You see if we were playing 10-20 we would be using red chips, but we're not." Everybody thinks I'm trying to make a fool out this guy, but I'm just saying the only completely honest thing that I can. But it's not what this guy wants to hear. I want to shake him. I want to shout, "Look at me! Listen to me! There is no difference in play!!" But I don't say that, I just repeat in a small voice, "This is a higher limit. The game is exactly the same as 10-20 but we use different chips." - Jesse May |
| The first time I lost $3,000, I went home and cried like a baby. When I lost $10,000, same thing. When I lost $30,000, I couldn't sleep for four days. When I lost $100,000, for the first time in my life, I couldn't sleep for a week. But then, the next time I lost $100,000, and the next time I lost $100,000, you know, it's like your pain threshold just goes up. - Jennifer Harman |
| The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. - Walter Matthau |
| The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them. - Anthony Holden |
| The guy who invented gambling was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius. - Julius "Big Julie" Weintraub |
| The most difficult aspects of playing poker professionally are coping emotionally with the losses and coping with the recurring idea that you're not doing anything worthwhile. - Mike Caro |
| The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing. - Nick "The Greek" Dandalos |
| The odds are merely a framework for play, like the lines of a tennis court. - David Spanier |
| The only bad luck for a good gambler is bad health. Any other setbacks are temporary aggravation. - Benny Binion |
| The only thing to fear is the river itself. - Unknown |
| The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. - David Mamet |
| The problem with making bets that look like they want to get called is that they usually do. - Uknown |
| The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they’re willin’ to lose everything. If they win, they’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that. - Pug Pearson |
| The single greatest key to winning is knowing thy enemy & yourself. - Andy Glazer |
| The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you are playing with or, more particularly, with the cards. There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips. - William J. Florence |
| The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important. - Doyle Brunson |
| The two things you need to be successful in poker are, first, find the muck, and second, don’t play your own money. - David Devilfish Ulliott |
| The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money. - Anthony Holden |
| There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush". It is enough to make one ashamed of the species." - Mark Twain |
| There are no bad beats, only bad reads. - Unknown |
| There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. - Jack Yelton |
| There is more to poker than life. - Tom McEvoy |
| There's opportunity in poker....If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, "Shuffle up and deal. - Lou Krieger |
| These two have no idea what they're about to walk into. Down here to have a good time, they figure, Why not give poker a try? After all, how different can it be from the home games they've played their whole lives? Luck. All the luck in the world isn't gonna change things for these guys. They're simply over matched. We're the pros at the table not playing together, but we're not playing against each other, either. It's like the Nature Channel. You don't see piranhas eating each other, do you? - Matt Damon |
| They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint any one of them. - Amarillo Slim |
| They say poker is a zero-sum game. It must be, because every time I play my sum ends up zero. - Max Shapiro |
| This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe. - Paul Auster |
| Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things and I still think young. - Doyle Brunson |
| To be a poker champion, you must have a strong bladder. - Jack McClelland |
| To master poker and make it profitable, you must first master patience and discipline, as a lack of either is a sure disaster regardless of all other talents, or lucky streaks. - Freddie Gasperian |
| Trust everyone, but always cut the cards. - Benny Binion |
| Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing! - Doyle Brunson |
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Virtually all the greats have gone broke at least once in their careers and I'm no different. The key is to learn something from the experience. - Daniel Negreanu
Walk softly and carry a bigger kicker. - Unknown |
| Waste not fresh tears over a bad beat, for there will be a plethora of them down the road. - Unknown |
| We didn't have much money back then, but I never gave any thought to it because we were happy. - Doyle Brunson |
| Well, tomorrow's another day. - John Hennigan |
| What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning. - Wilford Brimley |
| When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience. - Unknown |
| When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. I cured 'em of all their daydreams and delusions. - Minnesota Fats |
| When Luck Shuts The Door, Come In Through A Window. - Doyle Brunson |
| When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money. - David Sklansky |
| Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. - Anthony Holden |
| With spots quadrangular of diamond form, En sanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. - William Cowper |
| Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand. - Cool Hand Luke |
| Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. - Al Alvarez |
| You call this one and it's all over, baby. - Scotty Nguyen |
| You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away. - Bobby Baldwin |
| You can't hold enough hands coming into these tournaments without making some courageous plays. - Doyle Brunson |
| You gotta know when to hold'em, know when to foldem, know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you're sittin at the table, there'll be time enuff for countin when the dealin's done. - Kenny Rogers |
| You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone. - Lou Krieger |
| You have to be very intelligent and you have to prepare yourself for a tournament, much like you would prepare for a trial. You also have to work off of incomplete information in the legal profession, which works directly into what you do at a poker table. - Mark Seif |
| You have to learn what kind of hand this guy shows down, watch the veins in his neck, watch his eyes, the way he sweats. - Johnny Moss |
| You want to talk to me about hold'em? You're not even in the same country man...you're not even in the same Universe. So take that shit and bring it somewhere else. - Phil Helmuth |
| Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom. - VP Pappy |
| Your first duty is to the Game; then come Mother, God, and Country - Motto at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. |
| You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker. - Richard Roeper |
