Favorite Poker Quotes

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"I’m your standard quiet professor. A very nice wife, peace, and a routine low-stakes poker game suits me fine." -- Michael Collins
 
"Tournaments are won and lost in the trenches, where average-plus hands butt heads with average-minus hands." -- Dan Harrington
 
"I never show a bluff. I don’t ever want my opponents thinking I’d resort to trickery to win a pot." -- Adam Slutsky
 
"Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances." -- Sun Tzu ("The Art of War")
 
"Online poker gives you the supreme opportunity to achieve a poker face with the minimum of effort." -- Judi James
 
One of my favorites is from Doyle Brunson:

“Poker is a lot like life. You make the best decisions you can, and sometimes things still don’t work out.”
This quote helped me accept variance and bad beats without letting them affect my confidence.
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"One of the many reason I love no-limit Texas Hold ’Em is I find the balance between luck, skill, and bluffing a useful metaphor for life." -- John Buffalo Mailer
 
"Talking about a hand that you’re not directly involved in is one of the great ‘no-no’s‘ of poker." -- Adam Slutsky
 
"The best poker variations strike the right balance between hidden and exposed cards. Texas hold ’em lies right in the center of that sweet spot." -- Dan Harrington
 
One of my all-time favorite poker quotes is from Doyle Brunson:

“The key to No-Limit poker is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.”
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I like this quote because it captures the real essence of poker—pressure and decision-making. It’s not just about having the best hand, but about creating tough spots for your opponents and understanding when to apply maximum pressure.

It’s a reminder that poker is a thinking game, especially in big pots where decisions really matter.
 
"Your chips are like soldiers. You send them into battle to capture things---in this case, money. Be proud of your army. Lead it wisely." -- Eileen Sutton
 
"If I were engaged at a level where I could lose my house on a given night, my guess is that I’d be . . . considerably more timid, and would lose anyway." -- Norman Mailer
 
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
 
Life is fragile and unpredictable, especially for criminals. It's like playing poker: you think you've got a good hand. However, when you open your cards, to your dismay, you realize that someone else has a better hand. Drexel Deal, “The struggle of my life is with my father.”
 
"To say that he was bluffing was to give him far too much credit; more likely he was simply bored with sitting out." -- Joe Abercrombie
 
"Video poker would be much more enjoyable, if I could only learn to enjoy losing." -- Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy
 
"I’ll bet she’s bluffing, but this isn’t the time of year to tempt fate." -- "Calvin & Hobbes"
 
"Guy’s got a full house, you got two pair, it puts you in a philosophically indefensible position." -- "House of Games"
 
"‘I only got five cards.’ ‘How many do you want?’ I says. ‘Oh,’ he says, ‘if that's all I get I'll try to make 'em do.’" -- Ring Lardner
 
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