Favorite Poker Quotes

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in some program from the next EPT a few years ago, I heard, and I remember: "poker is a simple game, you throw out a bad hand, you play a good one, and you wait not to move to the river"
 
"Instead of forks they felt straights between their fingers. They ate their steaks thinking of royal flushes." -- Bertholt Brecht
 
“The name is No Limit Texas Hold'em, a game that takes you a minute to learn and a lifetime to master” — Mike Sexton
 
“Most players look for reasons to escape. I look for reasons to play” – Daniel Negreanu
 
"The game is a stimulating arena in which money-management, pluck and intelligence combine to determine who will get hacked limb from limb." -- James McManus
 
“Anyway, the truth is that we are ALWAYS gambling. We are gambling in the people we associate with, in how we allocate our time, in what we watch and listen to, what we give focus on, in what we eat, what we say, in all the risks that we take and even all the opportunities that we turn down. Indeed, there are times when the riskiest thing can be doing nothing at all…” ~ Daniel Cates
 
"Statistics show that there are 1,302,540 possible poker hands of less value than one pair. . . . I have held all of those 1,302,540 hands and a few thousand more that statistics never heard of." -- Russell Crouse
 
"It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid, and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it." -- Amarillo Slim
 
"Learning to play two pairs well is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly." -- Mark Twain
 
"Most good players are only good at one game, an’ I was good at ’em all." -- Johnny Moss
 
"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius." - Big Julie
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"I had learned poker the hard way, from a lively, tough Manhattan game where I fast dropped two weeks’ salary." -- Mignon McLaughlin
 
"Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical." -- David Einhorn
 
“Studying is lucky” - Yuri Dzivielevki
Many people think that poker is just a game of luck, but there's a lot of study behind it all.
 
"Did you watch him? He’s a sloppy player. He never counted his money, he just piled it up. . . . I knew after every hand where we both stood." -- William Diehl
 
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