Favorite Poker Quotes

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"If you are an excellent player, people are going to draw out on you a lot more than you’re going to draw out on them, because they’re simply going to have the worst hand against you a lot more." - Bobby Baldwin
 
I won my houseboat on a broken flush, four pink ones up and a stranger down." - John D. MacDonald
 
"I don't think I can fold this" - anyone about to suffer a cooler
 
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Everything conveys information at the poker table, you can’t be all loosey goosey eating a sandwich 😂 Dnegs
 
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"When a big pot is won, the winner sits around and cracks bad jokes, and the loser cries, ‘Deal!’" -- Jack Froehlich
 
"‘There’s a certain spot, between too drunk and not drunk enough, where I’m a hell of a card player.’" - Joe Abercrombie
 
"‘There’s a certain spot, between too drunk and not drunk enough, where I’m a hell of a card player.’" -- Joe Abercrombie
 
"The bubble is my favorite time. You should go crazy. Play any two cards. No one wants to bust on the bubble." -- Patrik Antonius
 
"He peeked at his cards and said ‘Ahhhh-ha,’ with a tone of interested pleasure. They were an astonishing constellation of crap; his worst hand yet." -- Scott Lynch
 
When jacks get beat by kings, “
Never send a boy to do a man’s job.”
Or ,” You can win ‘em all if you don’t win the first one.
 
"Many a time you’ll risk your stack / And back a king to hell and back--- / But, son, thar’s aces in every pack, / and don’t play ‘em unless you got ‘em." -- Damon Runyon
 
"I nearly supported myself during my two years in Hyde Park playing seven-card stud, Texas hold-em, no-peek and acey-deucey." -- Anthony Bourdain
 
If you can't spot the sucker at the table in the first half hour, then you are the sucker
 
"Poker players, it turns out, command one of the best-stocked pharmacies you’re likely to find for most every occasion." - Maria Konnikova
 
85champ07 said:
"If you are an excellent player, people are going to draw out on you a lot more than you’re going to draw out on them, because they’re simply going to have the worst hand against you a lot more." - Bobby Baldwin
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I really like this quote, I had a chance to meet Bobby many years ago when he was CFO at Mirage and he was really amazing to talk to.
 
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"Poker players, it turns out, command one of the best-stocked pharmacies you’re likely to find for most every occasion." -- Maria Konnikova
 
"The good thing about poker is there’s enough luck that you never have to admit it’s your fault you lost." - Ike Haxton
 
"The good thing about poker is there’s enough luck that you never have to admit it’s your fault you lost." -- Ike Haxton
 
"Real life consists of bluffing, of little tactics of deception, of asking yourself what is the other man going to think I mean to do." -- John von Neumann
 
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