Favorite Poker Quotes

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Poker is a game of patience, discipline, and decisions. Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn, but every hand makes you a better player
 
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"La gente piensa que dominar la técnica es lo difícil, pero se equivocan... El truco del póker es dominar la suerte".

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I like your phrase. I would say: “Luck decides some hands, but skill decides who's still at the table.”
 
"It’s in my character to feel worse about folding a winner than betting a loser." -- John Updike
 
“Poker is generally thought to be America’s second most popular after-dark activity. Sex is good, they say, but poker lasts longer.” -- Al Alvarez
 
"Bad beats are a really bad mental habit. You don’t want to ever dwell on them. It doesn’t help you become a better player. It’s like dumping your garbage on someone else’s lawn. It just stinks." -- Erik Seidel
 
"A lot of players—thanks, Pop—think they have a poker face. But they only use it when they’re holding something of value." -- Christopher Coake
 
I'm still learning and making mistakes, but every tournament teaches me something new. The goal is to keep improving and never stop chasing the next level.
 
"You’d put in everything, your wife, your parrot, to prevent him from drawing, you make it too expensive. . . . You know you have the best hand as things stand. You bet all your money." -- Michael Ondaatje
 
"Mr. Hopkins played the most exquisite poker. She complimented him, as another woman might have complimented her partner at a waltz." -- Peter Carey
 
"The past is a statistic, the future a probability; the present is action! All-in!"
"Victor Hugo"🤣
 
One of my absolute favorites has always been from Mike McDermott in Rounders: 'Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.' Never gets old
 
"You wanna learn about a person, it costs you. And the more you learn, the more it costs." -- David Goodis
 
"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 chip and a chair from chip Reese, still remember when I won 1+r on full tilt with 50 chips or so LOL
 
"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
 
One of my favorites is:

"Poker is a game of skill disguised as a game of luck."

It perfectly captures the idea that while short-term results are influenced by variance, long-term success comes from making consistently good decisions.
 
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