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"I once played in an impromptu game in London. The stakes were serious, but we had no chips, so the host filched his son’s Monopoly set and we used the bills at their face value." -- Al Alvarez
 
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"He’s got a computer, what does he keep on it? Accounts? Invoices? No, he keeps a record of all the games we’ve played, with lots of little colored graphs and charts." -- Patrick Marber
 
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Every hand is a choice between fear and cold calculation.
 
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"At any second, through all the hours, he knew to a nickel how the pot stood and controlled the players like the deck." -- Nelson Algren
 
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"I assume you know poker, or at least—like a lot of people—anyway play it." -- William Faulkner
 
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"When you get beat on and beat on, you bet when you should check and you check when you should bet. Folks get so they can read your mail." -- Pug Pearson
 
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"Dwight Eisenhower recorded West Point classmates' poker losses for payment after graduation and later stopped playing because his opponents resented having to pay him." -- Jean Edward Smith
 
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“Everyone is lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.” -- Doyle Brunson
 
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"He picked up one of the packs and shuffled it slightly and quickly, cut it, and dealt me a king high flush in spades." -- Raymond Chandler
 
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"What you do with what you’re dealt. That’s poker." -- Joyce Carol Oates
 
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"In my world, my enemies are ruthless. If I make nice, I get crushed." -- John Grisham
 
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"I lost my $100 buy-in before my seat got warm." -- John Lescroart
 
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"How about a little old Duck-in-the-Pond?’ . . . ‘Whazzat?’ grumbled Brush. He hated any silly variation of the the fine old game of poker." -- James Thurber
 
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"A poker player relies on getting some good cards, without doubt, but also on knowing what to do with them." -- Otto Penzler
 
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"Shiny watched him talk himself into it, the way bad players always sold themselves on a dubious call." -- Sam Hill
 
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Dialogue at the table: I have four aces! And me too! (Celentano)
 
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"A lot of players want to bluff in their mind, but in their heart, they just can’t push those chips out there. You have to convince yourself of what you’re doing." -- Johnny Chan
 
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"It is more about the people you are playing with than the cards you are dealt. Poker is simply a vehicle that facilitates human connection." -- Howard Lederer
 
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"I find that the incomparable advantage of playing by instinct is that no one has the slightest idea what I am likely to do or why. Neither have I, of course. . . " -- Barbara Tuchman
 
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"All the hands just bleed into one another, you know? And all the people." -- Katy Lederer
 
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