Favorite Poker Quotes

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Classic Mike McDermott from Rounders: 'If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.'
 
I love the Amarillo Slim quote: 'Poker is a game of people... It’s not the cards I’m playing, it’s the people.' Especially in live games, but even online, you’re playing against human emotions and mistakes
 
"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
 
"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
 
"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
 
"But for its costliness and dangers, no better education for life among men could be devised than the gambling table---especially the poker table." -- Clemens France
 
"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
 
"Actually, of the great players, the ones who are some of the most exploitable are the ones who are really into math." -- Erik Seidel
 
"The influence of tournament poker on television has created a generation of poker players who embrace too much risk." -- Rob Tucker
 
"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled, till I have a good hand." -- Jonathan Swift
 
"Don’t challenge strong players, challenge weak ones. That’s what they’re there for." -- John Vorhaus
 
"It is economics, I believe, that has been called the dismal science, but compared to poker rigidly played according to the law of averages economics must be positively exhilarating." -- Barbara Tuchman
 
"Whenever he makes a big bet in my direction, I just kind of sit there and wait. He probably thinks that I’m calculating pot odds or something like that, but I’m not. I’m just waiting for him to get uncomfortable." -- Andy Bellin
 
“Everyone is lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.” -- Doyle Brunson
 
I just saw the Season of Legends promo on Player City and it actually looks pretty big. The €512,000 prize pool caught my attention right away. I tried a few games yesterday just to check it out and didn’t expect to enjoy it this much. Has anyone here already managed to hit one of the €1,000 daily drops? https://cutt.ly/QtUTwgaX
 
"Poker is the game closest to the Western conception of life . . . where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or chance." -- John Lukacs
 
"Any poker player knows that, despite what mathematicians say, there are phenomenal runs of luck that defy explanation." -- David Mamet
 
"This will be Number One. You know it? Seven-card stud, high-low, kings and tens wild for low, sevens and deuces wild for high." -- Poul Anderson
 
"Every time you get a half-decent hand, you put your tongue up against the inside of your left cheek and hold it there." -- Sam Hill
 
"Most players are looking for reasons to escape. I'm looking for reasons to play” — Daniel Negreanu
 
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