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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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