Favorite Poker Quotes

[mkt]

"They can only beat you if you let them." – Phil Ivey

 

[mkt]

Money you win is twice as sweet as money you earn." – Gus Hansen

 

[KLEBE7]

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.'

 

[KLEBE7]

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

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker players, it turns out, command one of the best-stocked pharmacies you’re likely to find for most every occasion." -- Maria Konnikova

 

[Whaevoz]

"The good thing about poker is there’s enough luck that you never have to admit it’s your fault you lost." -- Ike Haxton

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"Actually, of the great players, the ones who are some of the most exploitable are the ones who are really into math." -- Erik Seidel

 

[Whaevoz]

"The influence of tournament poker on television has created a generation of poker players who embrace too much risk." -- Rob Tucker

 

[Whaevoz]

"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled, till I have a good hand." -- Jonathan Swift

 

[Whaevoz]

"Don’t challenge strong players, challenge weak ones. That’s what they’re there for." -- John Vorhaus

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

“Everyone is lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.” -- Doyle Brunson

 

[M6O6U6]

“If there weren’t luck involved, I would win every time.” — Phil Hellmuth

 

[JackpotJunkie]

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

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker is the game closest to the Western conception of life . . . where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or chance." -- John Lukacs

 

[Whaevoz]

"Any poker player knows that, despite what mathematicians say, there are phenomenal runs of luck that defy explanation." -- David Mamet

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[comini]

"Most players are looking for reasons to escape. I'm looking for reasons to play” — Daniel Negreanu