Favorite Poker Quotes

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"Dar had not played poker since the Marines, so he gave Syd his best chess face." -- Dan Simmons
 
"Folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is." -- Pug Pearson
 
"I mean, how long is a poker game? . . . Just because it breaks up doesn’t mean it ends. The players may go away, but . . . they’ll be there again the next day. Them or someone else. " -- Eric Drache
 
“Poker is a game of decisions, not results.” I remind myself of this after a bad session, especially when I know I made the right play but the cards didn't cooperate.
 
"For the most part, the younger the player, the looser they are, and the more likely it is that they will bluff." -- Andy Bellin
 
"With a Pair of Aces or Kings, one of two things will usually happen. Either: (1) You'll win a small pot or (2) You'll lose a big pot." -- Doyle Brunson
 
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport." -- Charles Lamb, Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist, 1821
He was writing about whist, a century before anyone dealt hold'em. Still the best line I know about what actually happens at a table.
 
"He was as generous as sunshine, and when luck chases a generous man, it chases him hard, even though he cannot bet with all the skill of his opponents." -- Stephen Crane
 
"Most great poker players -- as with most great artists -- have difficulty articulating how they do what they do; they just do." -- Michael Konik
 
"Baseball players and poker players spend most of their time picking up signs and working the count, but at least once every nine chances or so they really do have to come through." -- James McManus
 
"A great player doesn’t make his money catching someone bluffing. He makes it when he has a top pair and a kicker and figures someone else for a top pair with a smaller kicker." -- Johnny Chan
 
“Poker is a lot like life. You have to make the best of what you’re dealt.” _ Doyle Brunson
 
"Poker’s good if you like watching people. Not if you like people because then you won’t like people so much." -- Jesse May
 
"The child, who tries to win a prize at school by diligent mental culture, is a fair example of the honorable cardplayer who tries to win agreed-upon stakes, from associate players, by superior calculation of chances, or superior mental force." -- John Blackbridge
 
"I’m playing an honest game, Inspector. 52 cards to the pack, each and every one of them different. You can check them if you like." -- Alastair Sim
 
"Instead of forks they felt straights between their fingers. They ate their steaks thinking of royal flushes." -- Bertholt Brecht
 
My favorite quote is: "If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker." ...
 
"The game is a stimulating arena in which money-management, pluck and intelligence combine to determine who will get hacked limb from limb." -- James McManus
 
"Statistics show that there are 1,302,540 possible poker hands of less value than one pair. . . . I have held all of those 1,302,540 hands and a few thousand more that statistics never heard of." -- Russell Crouse
 
"It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid, and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it." -- Amarillo Slim
 
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