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"If you can’t look at your card one time and remember it for the few minutes it takes to play a hand of poker, then you have no business at the table." -- Milton T. Burton
 
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"For two dope dealers, O thinks, they are amazingly transparent. She should have them teach her to play poker with them, take everything they own." -- Don Winslow
 
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"At last he summoned up his courage and, pushing out his last hundred thousand (which represented all the cigars, champagne and other little pleasures he had to look forward to), he licked his lips several times and said, ‘I’ll see you.’" -- John Collier
 
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"A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations." -- I Ching
 
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"Poker players are some of the most delusional people on the planet. . . For every mistake we make at the poker table, there is an equal and opposite rationalization to explain it away. And when all else fails we can blame bad luck." -- Barbara Conners
 
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"You must never suppose that a poker face is sufficient. That shows you’re thinking, and sometimes the appearance of thought ain’t called for." -- George MacDonald Fraser
 
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"You can't go playing poker with a pistol in your sleeve." -- Mark Knopfler
 
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"Man’s disposition is such that hope lingers long after reason has bid it begone." -- Allan Massie
 
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“The two most important things to succeed in poker are first, find the muck and second, don’t play your money.” -- David “Devilfish” Ulliott
 
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"Courage! And shuffle the cards." -- George MacDonald Fraser
 
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"It’s hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you’re on a losing one." -- Cara Bertoia
 
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"When a gambler picks up a pack of cards or a pair of dice, he feels as though he has reduced an unmanageable world to a finite, visible and comprehensible size." -- Annabel Davis-Goff
 
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"Yeah, money talks, I should know. Mine always says ‘Goodbye.'" -- David Lee Roth
 
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"Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite." -- Lou Krieger
 
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"Seventy-five percent of all poker players think they play better than the other seventy-five percent." -- Tommy Angelo
 
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"If the world's top players have only one thing in common, it's that they take control of the hands they play with bets and raises. Usually . . . calling is the least attractive option." -- Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
 
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"The harder I work, the luckier I get." -- Gary Player
 
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“If you always start from the worst hand, you will never have a bad beat story.” -- Chuck Thompson
 
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"Toothpicks and candy bars make good poker chips and don't raise emotions the way that paychecks do." -- Linda Greenlaw
 
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"If you think bluffing is easy you’ll have made your first mistake." -- Judi Jame
 
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"I’m your standard quiet professor. A very nice wife, peace, and a routine low-stakes poker game suits me fine." -- Michael Collins
 
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Poker isn't just about mastering the skill, it's also about managing your luck. This is complemented by other quotes that highlight the importance of strategy, patience, and self-assessment in the game.
 
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"Pot odds and probabilities are poker’s DNA." -- Eileen Sutton
 
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