Favorite Poker Quotes

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85champ07

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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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"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
 
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"You can’t think you’ve played well if you lose consistently." -- Mickey Appleman
 
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"You couldn’t tell what a man was holding [by peeking at the discards],but you could learn a good deal by seeing what he throwed away. Therefore the practice was frowned on to the degree that if you was caught at it, you could get your head blown off." - "Little Big Man"
 
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"You couldn’t tell what a man was holding (by peeking at the discards), but you could learn a good deal by seeing what he throwed away. Therefore, the practice was frowned on to the degree that if you were caught at it, you could get your head blown off." -- "Little Big Man"
 
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“Only losers and amateurs complain about the cards.” (Lou Krieger)
 
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“If luck didn't influence poker, I would always win.” (Phil Hellmuth)
 
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Tight is right, always see a flop, dont go brook in a limped pot
 
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Can't remember who said it but my fav quote is :

"Poker is hours of boredom punctuated by minutes of sheer terror."
 
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Mine is "If you can't spot the sucker in the first 30 minutes, you are the sucker." What's
your favorite poker quote?
 
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"When you are big-stacked, playing your stack becomes more important than playing your cards." -- Neil Timothy
 
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"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
 
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"The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips." -- Doyle Brunson
 
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"If someone asks you if you like your food, answer. If someone asks you if you like your cards, don't answer." - Tommy Angelo
 
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"I poker-playerishly detected in his eyes the momentary flicker of an unexpected reverse." - John Lanchester
 
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“My favorite chip trick is to make everyone’s chip stack disappear.” – Amarillo Slim
 
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