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heguli82
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"Poker is a hard way to make an easy living." - Doyle Brunson
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"Good poker players know when to quit, but only after they’ve known what it is to lose." -- Jack Richardson
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"If there’s something I know about the game that the other person doesn’t, and he’s not willing to learn or can’t understand, then I TAKE HIS MONEY." - David Sklansky
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#2,479
“The smarter you play, the luckier you get.”
It’s both humorous and true — a nice reminder that “luck” often shows up right after you start making better decisions.
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"I'm known as a Professional gambler rather than just a Professional Poker player . . . and I have to admit that I am." -- Doyle Brunson
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"The lucky man is usually the man who knows how much to leave to chance." - C.S. Forester
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"Stay in the tournament long enough to give yourself a chance to get lucky." -- Doyle Brunson
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"Probably less than 5 percent of those who play poker know the proper percentages involved in drawing out on a hand." - Amarillo Slim
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"Stay out of games in which there are fish. They never know when they're supposed to bet, slow up the game, and louse things up generally." - John Moss
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" all you need is a chip and chair" - momma said..
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"No-limit. There’s no other game in which fortunes can change so much from hand to hand." -- "Rounders"
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"The number of slobs you’ll see in a poker tournament defies any rational explanation." - Phil Gordon
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"Once the men have started poker, they will be no trouble for the rest of the trip, except for late-night sessions in the smokeroom during which they stake their wives." - Jan de Hartog
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"A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walk around lucky and not know it." -- Robert Turner
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"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." - Andrew S. Grove
I love this quote, it really relates to my experiences with poker. Sometimes being on a winning streak changes your perception and you start losing over and over. Variance is ugly and if your not paying attention enough your cards no longer matter. We are all at risk.
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know when to hold em, know when to fold em
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"gambling ain’t for lazy people." - Robert B. Parker
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"Card games? The only game I know anything about is that game---let me see---I don’t know what the name is, but you put one card down on the table and four face up, and you bet." - Harry S Truman
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"There are millions of tells you could write down if you could only think of them all." - Mike Caro
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"He played shirtfront poker, enjoying it immensely, completely lost in loving it, in matching his brain against the disembodied brains against him. It was true poker, hard monotonous unthrilling. . . . " -- "From Here to Eternity"
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1. “If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.” — Paul Newman
2. “Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.” — Steven Wright
3. “Just play every hand, you can’t miss them all.” — Sammy Farha
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"Don’t try to devise elaborate strategies to use against a bad player. They won’t work against him. Use sophisticated plays against a good player. They’ll work against him." - Doyle Brunson
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"Don’t try to devise elaborate strategies to use against a bad player. They won’t work against him. Use sophisticated plays against a good player. They’ll work against him." -- Doyle Brunson
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The flight was smooth, and the Grand Canyon was spectacular in the early afternoon light, but I had three queens at the time and could spare it no more than a glance." - H. Goodman
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"The flight was smooth, and the Grand Canyon was spectacular in the early afternoon light, but I had three queens at the time and could spare it no more than a glance." -- H. Goodman