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At limit, you shoot at a target. At no-limit, the target comes to life and shoots back at you. - Crandell Addington
 
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Poker is a science at the limit, but an art at the limitless. Crandell Addington
 
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The name of the game is No-Limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master. Mike Sexton
 
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“Life, like poker, has an element of risk. It shouldn’t be avoided. It should be faced.” ~ Edward Norton
 
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“Poker is not a game in which the meek inherit the Earth.” ~ David Hayano
 
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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 is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.” ~ James Altucher
 
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“Serious poker is no more about gambling than rock climbing is about taking risks.” ~ Al Alvarez
 
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"Actually, of the great players, the ones who are some of the most exploitable are the ones who are really into math." - Erik Seidel
 
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"Actually, of the great players, the ones who are some of the most exploitable are the ones who are really into math." -- Erik Seidel
 
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"The influence of tournament poker on television has created a generation of poker players who embrace too much risk." - Rob Tucker
 
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"The influence of tournament poker on television has created a generation of poker players who embrace too much risk." -- Rob Tucker
 
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-1respect1- said:
"People think mastering the skill is the hard part, but they're wrong....The trick to poker is mastering the luck"

just wondering if anyone else has some good quotes...
just leave me a messages if ya will....telling me how u like or not like my quote.
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Nice quote! I like the idea — luck plays a huge part, and learning how to deal with it really makes a difference. Well said!
 
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85champ07 said:
Share and discuss your favorite quotes and poetic words of poker wisdom here. Recently I have enjoyed the daily quotes from replay poker and it has sparked an old love of poetry. I find many words of poker advice can be interpreted in multiple ways and depending on the situation it speaks to everyone a bit differently.
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"Never balance against a fish" - Sun Tzu, the Art of War
 
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"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled, till I have a good hand." -- Jonathan Swift
 
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“Poker may be a form of psychological warfare, an art form, or a way to live, but it is also merely the game in which money is just the means of keeping score.” -- Anthony Holden
 
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"It is economics, I believe, that has been called the dismal science, but compared to poker rigidly played according to the law of averages economics must be positively exhilarating." -- Barbara Tuchman
 
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"Never play poker without a limit. It is then the most dangerous of all games." -- William J. Florence (1890)
 
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"Whenever he makes a big bet in my direction, I just kind of sit there and wait. He probably thinks that I’m calculating pot odds or something like that, but I’m not. I’m just waiting for him to get uncomfortable." - Andy Bellin
 
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"Whenever he makes a big bet in my direction, I just kind of sit there and wait. He probably thinks that I’m calculating pot odds or something like that, but I’m not. I’m just waiting for him to get uncomfortable." -- Andy Bellin
 
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-1respect1- said:
"People think mastering the skill is the hard part, but they're wrong....The trick to poker is mastering the luck"

just wondering if anyone else has some good quotes...
just leave me a messages if ya will....telling me how u like or not like my quote.
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Interesting phrase. I think we should keep it.
 
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“It is said that patience and stubbornness are the two most important psychological characteristics of snipers. Some might argue that the same holds true for poker players.” -- Stephen Bloomfield
 
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"Poker is the game closest to the Western conception of life . . . where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or chance." -- John Lukacs
 
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