Favorite Poker Quotes

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"A man can find out a lot about himself, playing poker. Is he brave? Is he cool? Does he have any money left?" -- Martin Amis
 
“In 1987, I wrote a goal sheet. I didn’t want to waste my life. I’d dropped out of college, and there was a lot of pressure from my parents. I decided, ‘If you’re going to do this, you’re going to become the best in the world at this.’” ~ Phil Hellmuth
 
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"When a man’s eyes are so dim that he can’t see a straight flush when it’s dealt him he has no business to play poker." -- W. Somerset Maugham
 
“Dad, how long do you need to study poker?” - “All your life, son.”
David Spanier
 
"Dar had not played poker since the Marines, so he gave Syd his best chess face." -- Dan Simmons
 
"Folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is." -- Pug Pearson
 
"I mean, how long is a poker game? . . . Just because it breaks up doesn’t mean it ends. The players may go away, but . . . they’ll be there again the next day. Them or someone else." -- Eric Drache
 
"For the most part, the younger the player, the looser they are, and the more likely it is that they will bluff." -- Andy Bellin
 
This is cheesy but “know when hold ‘em’, know when to fold em’”. That song always pops in my head while I’m playing.
 
"Studying poker is a little like learning with a crazy math teacher. A teacher who marks problems right or wrong with no correlation to whether we did the problem correctly or not." -- Danny Asman
 
"With a Pair of Aces or Kings, one of two things will usually happen. Either: (1) You'll win a small pot or (2) You'll lose a big pot." -- Doyle Brunson
 
“After I had the cancer operation where I wasn’t expected to live. When I came out of the hospital, I decided I was going to play poker, do what I wanted to do the rest of my life. That’s when I made the turning point to be a professional player. I was 28. I had just got married. I was considering going back into “the real world” and getting “the real job.” After that (surviving cancer) happened, I just decided that life’s too short. I was going to do what I wanted to do.” ~ Doyle Brunson
 
"To be a great poker player, you're going to have to learn this fact: Everything that's said at a poker table is worth listening to. It's all information that you can use to make better decisions, whether people are talking about baseball, politics, or, oh yeah, poker." -- Daniel Negreanu
 
"Most great poker players -- as with most great artists -- have difficulty articulating how they do what they do; they just do." -- Michael Konik
 
“Please don’t be an asshole to obvious new players at the poker table. If you can tell someone is new to live poker, try giving them a bit of help and make their experience more comfortable instead of treating them like they are some type of idiot.” ~ Joe Ingram
 
"A great player doesn’t make his money catching someone bluffing. He makes it when he has a top pair and a kicker and figures someone else for a top pair with a smaller kicker." -- Johnny Chan
 
When you are up your friends know who you are, when you are down you know who your friends are.
 
"If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers." -- Dan Bilzerian
 
"Poker is a game of skill, strategy, and pretending to be surprised when you win with a terrible hand."
 
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