I saw a website that had a few quotes on them. Some I REALLY liked. My personal favorites were:
"The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play." -- Chris Moneymaker.
"A poker game is like baseball. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing, and nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead." -- Jackie Robinson.
Just for comic value though...this one made me laugh:
"Last night I stayed up playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." -- Steven Wright.
"The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play." -- Chris Moneymaker.
"A poker game is like baseball. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing, and nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead." -- Jackie Robinson.
Just for comic value though...this one made me laugh:
"Last night I stayed up playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." -- Steven Wright.
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."
- Stu Ungarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stu_Unger
"I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for." > Al Alvarez
"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
"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." > Crandell Addington
"Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just be being around those people." > Samantha Bee
"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
"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." > Crandell Addington
"Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just be being around those people." > Samantha Bee
"But it was suited!"
This comes from a weekly, private game. There was one guy, Frank, who would not fold suited cards pre-flop for any reasonable raise. He dealt out some really ridiculous bad-beats often. And, when someone would get angry about it, he would just respond, "But it was suited!" As if that justified calling.
Eventually, whenever someone got beat in a strange or unlucky way someone at the table would declare, "But it was suited!" (even if it wasn't).
I miss playing with Frank, he moved a long time ago. He was as fishy as they come, and he didn't mind people joking about it. He took the teasing really well. He knew that he wasn't playing great poker. He was just there to have fun and didn't care if he lost money.
