Favorite Poker Quotes

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"I'm known as a Professional gambler rather than just a Professional Poker player . . . and I have to admit that I am." -- Doyle Brunson
 
"Probably less than 5 percent of those who play poker know the proper percentages involved in drawing out on a hand." -- Amarillo Slim
 
Sometimes you need to make a fold so you can make another fold. I learned this from a friend during a livestream, Yiri Gianiaki.
 
"Stay out of games in which there are fish. They never know when they're supposed to bet, slow up the game, and louse things up generally." -- John Moss
 
"No-limit. There’s no other game in which fortunes can change so much from hand to hand." -- "Rounders"
 
"The number of slobs you’ll see in a poker tournament defies any rational explanation." -- Phil Gordon
 
"A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walk around lucky and not know it." -- Robert Turner
 
"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." -- Andrew S. Grove
 
“Serious poker is no more about gambling than rock climbing is about taking risks.” -- Al Alvarez
 
"There are millions of tells you could write down if you could only think of them all." -- Mike Caro
 
"He played shirtfront poker, enjoying it immensely, completely lost in loving it, in matching his brain against the disembodied brains against him. It was true poker, hard monotonous unthrilling. . . . " -- "From Here to Eternity"
 
"Don’t try to devise elaborate strategies to use against a bad player. They won’t work against him. Use sophisticated plays against a good player. They’ll work against him." -- Doyle Brunson
 
"The flight was smooth, and the Grand Canyon was spectacular in the early afternoon light, but I had three queens at the time and could spare it no more than a glance." -- H. Goodman
 
"You couldn’t tell what a man was holding [by peeking at the discards],but you could learn a good deal by seeing what he throwed away. Therefore, the practice was frowned on to the degree that if you was caught at it, you could get your head blown off." -- "Little Big Man"
 
"Every deck of cards contains a lot more bad poker hands than good ones." -- Rodentbane
 
"When you are big-stacked, playing your stack becomes more important than playing your cards." -- Neil Timothy
 
"Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a `flush.' It is enough to make one ashamed of the species." -- Mark Twain
 
"Belief in luck is a great mystical rationalization for the refusal to think." -- Frank R. Wallace
 
"I poker-playerishly detected in his eyes the momentary flicker of an unexpected reverse." -- John Lanchester
 
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