Favorite Poker Quotes

[Whaevoz]

"Dar had not played poker since the Marines, so he gave Syd his best chess face." -- Dan Simmons

 

[Whaevoz]

"Folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is." -- Pug Pearson

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"For the most part, the younger the player, the looser they are, and the more likely it is that they will bluff." -- Andy Bellin

 

[flabilim]

There's a quote that says “Lucky lost” when you get a sequel right and the villain ends up playing a bigger game than yours

 

[Whaevoz]

"Studying poker is a little like learning with a crazy math teacher. A teacher who marks problems right or wrong with no correlation to whether we did the problem correctly or not." -- Danny Asman

 

[Whaevoz]

"Gambling and work don’t mix." -- Johnny Moss

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"Most great poker players -- as with most great artists -- have difficulty articulating how they do what they do; they just do." -- Michael Konik

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"The true logic of the universe is the calculus of probabilities." -- James Clerk Maxwell

 

[Whaevoz]

"A great payer 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

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker’s good if you like watching people. Not if you like people because then you won’t like people so much." -- Jesse May

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[tw082]

“When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.” ~ Unknown

“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.” ~ Paul Newman

 

[kishamania]

Everyone is equal in front of the river; by the way, separation is also possible after the river.

 

[Whaevoz]

"If you fold I'll show you a bluff. If you call I'll show you the nuts" -- David Peat

 

[Whaevoz]

"Instead of forks they felt straights between their fingers. They ate their steaks thinking of royal flushes." -- Bertholt Brecht

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

" ...a discussion of my fundamental view that nothing in life is certain and that, consequently, all decisions are about probabilities." -- Robert E. Rubin

 

[szabooom]

Chip and a chair

 

[Whaevoz]

"Most good players are only good at one game, an’ I was good at ’em all." -- Johnny Moss

 

[Whaevoz]

"I had learned poker the hard way, from a lively, tough Manhattan game where I fast dropped two weeks’ salary." -- Mignon McLaughlin