Favorite Poker Quotes

[Whaevoz]

"To try to be brave is to be brave." -- George MacDonald

 

[Whaevoz]

“The object of poker is to keep your money away from Phil Ivey for as long as possible.” -- Gus Hansen

 

[Whaevoz]

"There isn't a single poker who hasn't sucked out on somebody or been sucked out on." -- T.J. Cloutier

 

[Whaevoz]

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

 

[Whaevoz]

“If I lose, I don’t give a damn about the money, but I just hate the embarrassment of being beaten.” -- Jack Straus

 

[Whaevoz]

"If they are helpless and can't defend themselves, you're in the right game." -- Mike Caro

 

[accuratefern]

When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people.
- Stuey Ungar

The Jewish kid from Lower Manhattan was raised by conmen and mobsters. Played cards before he could walk. Stu Ungar is widely regarded as the greatest poker player ever.

 

[accuratefern]

 

[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

 

[Whaevoz]

"Hunches are for dog's making love." -- Amarillo Slim

 

[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]

"Superstition is so destructive to poker profit that I believe the costliest thing a player can bring to the table is a good-luck charm." -- Doyle Brunson

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker is the art of civilized bushwhacking." -- Nick 'The Greek' Dandalos

 

[Whaevoz]

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

 

[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

 

[_420_420_]

There's no one that ever beat me playing cards, the only one that ever beat me was myself.

- Stu Ungar

I have finally figured out a strategy for myself

 

[RALF_AK]

“Success is an ability to go from defeat to defeat without losing enthusiasm.” “It's not always with good cards that you win a full pot.” “bluffing is the best card to take out the manga.” “A man's true feelings show up at a poker game.”
Doyle Brunson


This thought makes us reflect on our skills and knowledge about this extremely complex game.

 

[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

 

[ScooperNova]

I didn't have time to read through the 76 pages here, but I feel like 75 pages could be filled with Doyle Brunson quotes. That man was a linguistic goldmine!

 

[Magallaneroy]

"Trust everyone, but always cut the cards" Benny Binion

 

[Whaevoz]

"You must never suppose that a poker face is sufficient. That shows you’re thinking, and sometimes the appearance of thought ain’t called for." -- George MacDonald Fraser

 

[Whaevoz]

"You can't go playing poker with a pistol in your sleeve." -- Mark Knopfler

 

[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]

“When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.” -- David Sklansky