Favorite Poker Quotes

[Whaevoz]

"Overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it." -- Neal Stephenson

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker is meant to be enjoyed." -- Chris Moneymaker

 

[Whaevoz]

"Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting." -- Jason Alexander

 

[odonob]

If you can’t spot the fish at the table then you are it

 

[gusper]

I don't think that whoever wins or who loses, or whoever wins or loses, is going to win or lose. Everyone will lose

 

[9peso]

“The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold’em: The game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.” - Mike Sexton

 

[Whaevoz]

"The lunatic image he had established with the first two hands impelled at least one of the other players to call him every time he stayed." -- Tim Powers

 

[Eeanoriya]

Life is like a game of poker: you always have to be prepared for someone else's bluff and have an ace up your sleeve

 

[Whaevoz]

"Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset." -- David Einhorn

 

[kabokinha]

"Winners don't make excuses"

- Harvey Specter (SUITS)

 

[Whaevoz]

"If you can’t look at your card one time and remember it for the few minutes it takes to play a hand of poker, then you have no business at the table." -- Milton T. Burton

 

[Whaevoz]

"There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces." -- Rachel Shelley

 

[Whaevoz]

"The goal of hyper-aggressive poker is to create a wild and crazy image that will return dividends when you're eventually dealt a monster hand." -- Daniel Negreanu

 

[Whaevoz]

"Hope is not a strategy." -- Rick Page

 

[bababooey]

I like Jack Straus' quote from the 1982 world series of poker. All you need is a "chip and a chair"

It's happened before where I have been in a tournament with less than 1BB and running up a stack from that.

 

[Whaevoz]

"A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations." -- I Ching

 

[turnupthebb]

It was a good topic. I read the first few pages but then I got bored because it's basically every quote on loop. People just write the same quotes 100 times because they didn't read what quotes were already posted, so that ruined the topic for me.

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker players are some of the most delusional people on the planet. . . . For every mistake we make at the poker table, there is an equal and opposite rationalization to explain it away. And when all else fails we can blame bad luck." -- Barbara Conners

 

[Dzill_230]

"Those who can do something, do it. Those who can't, teach." - D. Branson, Supersystem.

 

[Whaevoz]

"Models are interested in me, mostly because of my 'bad boy of poker' image." -- Phil Hellmuth

 

[ppartizan2]

Watched a guy on YouTube named Jon Bois. He showcased Hansen and his crazy 12 hadn in a row winning streak. In the end he added: "Gus just ignored the odds, and the odds seemed to dissapear".

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory." -- Jason Alexander

 

[Whaevoz]

"Man’s disposition is such that hope lingers long after reason has bid it begone." -- Allan Massie

 

[Whaevoz]

"The cards began to come to me, under the naked bulb, the aces and deuces and the queens with their beautiful cold faces, and I really only made 2 mistakes that night." -- John Updike

 

[Whaevoz]

"Courage! And shuffle the cards." - George MacDonald Fraser