Favorite Poker Quotes

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“As long as you've got 'a chip and a chair', there's still hope”.
 
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"The number of slobs you’ll see in a poker tournament defies any rational explanation." -- Phil Gordon
 
"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
 
"A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walk around lucky and not know it." -- Robert Turner
 
"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." -- Andrew S. Grove
 
"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
 
“This reminds me of the old saying about a guy who owned four farms. He lost three of them drawing to inside straights and lost the fourth one when he made it.” -- Lyle Berman
 
"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"
 
“Life's a lot like poker. You bet on some hands, you fold some. You win some hands, you lose some. But unlike poker, life is not a zero sum game. There's enough chips in the pot for everyone.” -- Sanhita Baruah
 
"Every deck of cards contains a lot more bad poker hands than good ones." -- Rodentbane
 
"When you are big-stacked, playing your stack becomes more important than playing your cards." -- Neil Timothy
 
"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
 
"Belief in luck is a great mystical rationalization for the refusal to think." -- Frank R. Wallace
 
"If someone asks you if you like your food, answer. If someone asks you if you like your cards, don't answer." -- Tommy Angelo
 
"A poker player has to be lucky---in the same way that Warren Buffett gets lucky playing the stock market year after year." -- Phil Gordon
 
I think that it is not only luck but also poker skill to play a hand, whether for example if you have any hand up to a 2 7 you can play it as if you had an AA or an AK it just depends on how you play it, against who And at what time you play it, luck does influence but I think it's more about the skill of how to play poker.
 
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