Favorite Poker Quotes

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""Pushing up the ante, I know you've got to see me, Read 'em and weep, the dead man's hand again."" -- Motörhead
 
"You wanna learn about a person, it costs you. And the more you learn, the more it costs." -- David Goodis
 
"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
 
"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
 
Yes, I also have a couple of catchy phrases about poker - and one of them is in my signature, just read it.
 
"Folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is." -- Pug Pearson
 
My dad always use this one on our Home Game!

"Well, if I paid 100 chips, why not 10,000?"
 
Mine is: "Never bluf a fish, they sleep with their eyes opened!"

Or we have the biggest joke ever

"My JJ held until the river!!"
 
Another one: You can't win a tournament in 1 hand, but loose it, apparently it's possible.
 
"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
 
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