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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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"Hope is not a strategy." - Rick Page

But as my gf just stated, hope is essential.
 
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"Hope is not a strategy." -- Rick Page
 
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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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"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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...my favorite phrase applied to poker is:
"the fear of losing takes away the will to win"...attributed to the multi-winner Vanderlei Luxemburgo.
 
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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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"[Y]ou 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 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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[M]an’s disposition is such that hope lingers long after reason has bid it begone." - Allan Massie
 
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"The cards began to come to me, under the naked bulb, the aces and deuces and the queens with their beautiful cold faces, and I really only made 2 mistakes that night." - John Updike
 
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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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"Yeah, money talks, I should know. Mine always says ‘Goodbye.'" -- David Lee Roth
 
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"You will show your poker greatness by the hands you fold, not the hands you play." - Dan Reed
 
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“Poker’s like life—play the hand you’re dealt, but play it smart.”
 
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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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"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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