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"If you are an excellent player, people are going to draw out on you a lot more than you’re going to draw out on them, because they’re simply going to have the worst hand against you a lot more." - Bobby Baldwin
 
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“Poker does not allow the meek to inherit the Earth.” -- David Hayano
 
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I won my houseboat on a broken flush, four pink ones up and a stranger down." - John D. MacDonald
 
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“Just play every hand. You can’t miss them all.” -- Sammy Farha
 
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"Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world the lucky person passes for a genius." - Euripedes
 
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Everything conveys information at the poker table, you can’t be all loosey goosey eating a sandwich 😂 Dnegs
 
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"When a big pot is won, the winner sits around and cracks bad jokes, and the loser cries, ‘Deal!’" -- Jack Froehlich
 
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"‘There’s a certain spot, between too drunk and not drunk enough, where I’m a hell of a card player.’" - Joe Abercrombie
 
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"‘There’s a certain spot, between too drunk and not drunk enough, where I’m a hell of a card player.’" -- Joe Abercrombie
 
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"The bubble is my favorite time. You should go crazy. Play any two cards. No one wants to bust on the bubble." -- Patrik Antonius
 
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"He peeked at his cards and said ‘Ahhhh-ha,’ with a tone of interested pleasure. They were an astonishing constellation of crap; his worst hand yet." -- Scott Lynch
 
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When jacks get beat by kings, “
Never send a boy to do a man’s job.”
Or ,” You can win ‘em all if you don’t win the first one.
 
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"Many a time you’ll risk your stack / And back a king to hell and back--- / But, son, thar’s aces in every pack, / and don’t play ‘em unless you got ‘em." -- Damon Runyon
 
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"I nearly supported myself during my two years in Hyde Park playing seven-card stud, Texas hold-em, no-peek and acey-deucey." -- Anthony Bourdain
 
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If you can't spot the sucker at the table in the first half hour, then you are the sucker
 
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"Poker players, it turns out, command one of the best-stocked pharmacies you’re likely to find for most every occasion." - Maria Konnikova
 
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85champ07 said:
"If you are an excellent player, people are going to draw out on you a lot more than you’re going to draw out on them, because they’re simply going to have the worst hand against you a lot more." - Bobby Baldwin
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I really like this quote, I had a chance to meet Bobby many years ago when he was CFO at Mirage and he was really amazing to talk to.
 
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"Poker players, it turns out, command one of the best-stocked pharmacies you’re likely to find for most every occasion." -- Maria Konnikova
 
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"The good thing about poker is there’s enough luck that you never have to admit it’s your fault you lost." - Ike Haxton
 
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"The good thing about poker is there’s enough luck that you never have to admit it’s your fault you lost." -- Ike Haxton
 
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"Real life consists of bluffing, of little tactics of deception, of asking yourself what is the other man going to think I mean to do." -- John von Neumann
 
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