Favorite Poker Quotes

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If you can't spot the sucker in the first half at the table then you are the sucker.- Matt Damon Rounders
 
"It’s in my character to feel worse about folding a winner than betting a loser." -- John Updike
 
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"We have hillbillies with third grade educations and 8th grade educations who have conquered the poker world. There is no telling why someone is great at reading other people. Some people just are." -- Phil Helmuth
 
"Seventy-five thousand,’ she raised, sighing. ‘Think of all the eyeliner that’d buy." -- Jefferey Deaver
 
"Bad beats are a really bad mental habit. You don’t want to ever dwell on them. It doesn’t help you become a better player. It’s like dumping your garbage on someone else’s lawn. It just stinks." -- Erik Seidel
 
Literally I do not remember, but it sounds something like “playing poker is one hundred percent skill, and fifty percent luck”, somehow so.
 
Playing poker is like a relationship: you need the right mix of strategy, patience, and a little bit of luck, and if you don't know when to fold, you might end up sleeping on the couch!
 
"A lot of players think they have a poker face. But they only use it when they’re holding something of value." - Christopher Coake
 
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"Always keep in mind that poker is about limiting your losses and maximizing your gains on every hand you play." -- Daniel Negreanu
 
"Poker has such an element of competitiveness that other games don't have." -- Chris Moneymaker
 
"It's a great battle, and it really is a battle, and there are people from all walks of life, you know, never judge anybody at the table: A man can be the greatest poker player and he might know all the numbers, but he might get beaten by a really savvy kid who works in a grocery store; and that's what's so great about this game." -- James Woods
 
"You wanna learn about a person, it costs you. And the more you learn, the more it costs." -- David Goodis
 
poker is not a game of cards played by people, it is a game of people played with cards
 
"Simple pleasures. Music and dance, wine, ale, dice and cards." -- Guy Gavriel Kay
 
"There is an unwritten rule among regulars that obvious live ones, wealthy losers, and cardroom strangers should never be criticized publicly or made to feel bad about their poor play and the extent of their losses." -- David Hayano
 
"To him it didn’t matter if he was playing no limit or penny ante. He still liked to make the right percentage play. It was a matter of pride." -- Dick Miles
 
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