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
 
"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
 
“The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you are playing or, more particularly with the cards. There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips.” -- William J. Florence
 
"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
 
"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
 
“Poker is not simply a game of odds, moves and calculations. It is a game of controlled and exploited emotions including greed, fear, over-confidence and anger.” -- Steven Lubet
 
"Most great poker players -- as with most great artists -- have difficulty articulating how they do what they do; they just do." -- Michael Konik
 
"Baseball players and poker players spend most of their time picking up signs and working the count, but at least once every nine chances or so they really do have to come through." -- James McManus
 
"One day a chump, the next day a champion. What a difference a day makes in tournament poker!” -- Mike Sexton
 
"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
 
"Poker’s good if you like watching people. Not if you like people because then you won’t like people so much." -- Jesse May
 
"The child, who tries to win a prize at school by diligent mental culture, is a fair example of the honorable cardplayer who tries to win agreed-upon stakes, from associate players, by superior calculation of chances, or superior mental force." -- John Blackbridge
 
"Instead of forks they felt straights between their fingers. They ate their steaks thinking of royal flushes." -- Bertholt Brecht
 
"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
 
"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
 
"A lot of people think the pain comes from bad beats, but in my experience, the pain comes from not playing as well as you can." -- Andy Black
 
"Most good players are only good at one game, an’ I was good at ’em all." -- Johnny Moss
 
"I had learned poker the hard way, from a lively, tough Manhattan game where I fast dropped two weeks’ salary." -- Mignon McLaughlin
 
"If you can't fold the winning hand, you can't play poker." -- Amarillo "Slim" Preston
 
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