Favorite Poker Quotes

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"A true professional doesn't look for perfect cards; he looks for perfect conditions." - Eric Sidel. I like this one.
 
"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
 
if you can't pull a $100 out of your pocket and light it on fire, i don't think you can play poker for a living.

Phil Ivey
 
"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
 
"I poker-playerishly detected in his eyes the momentary flicker of an unexpected reverse." -- John Lanchester
 
“There's no one that ever beat me playing cards, the only one that ever beat me was myself.” -- Stu Ungar
 
"I'm coming, i'm regular a now, i know all this things, i know all the little rules, i'm talking to regulars, i've regulars in my chat, i'm back, i'm back."

Lex V.
 
"A poker player has to be lucky---in the same way that Warren Buffet gets lucky playing the stock market year after year." -- Phil Gordon
 
"Poker is the only game for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's hand is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork?" -- W. Somerset Maugham
 
-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.
-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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Play to win, do not play not to loose, not the exact quote but close. I like it because I was always playing not to loose, this quote changed my game. love it
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"You don't make money at this game by winning the good hands, you make money at this game by folding the good hands"

In other words, when you become so competent in your skill, that your able too fold monsters in this game straights, flushes, full houses, QQ's maybe even KK pre etc. That's when you are world class imo.
 
"There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them."
 
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