Favorite Poker Quotes

[GrannySmit77]

'' You call, it's all over baby.''- Scotty Nguyen

 

[85champ07]

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

 

[Whaevoz]

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

 

[Whaevoz]

“Most of what you’ll win at poker is not due to your brilliance, but the ineptitude and skill of your opponents.” -- Lou Krieger

 

[85champ07]

"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

 

[Whaevoz]

"I once played in an impromptu game in London. The stakes were serious, but we had no chips, so the host filched his son’s Monopoly set and we used the bills at their face value." -- Al Alvarez

 

[Whaevoz]

"He’s got a computer, what does he keep on it? Accounts? Invoices? No, he keeps a record of all the games we’ve played, with lots of little colored graphs and charts." -- Patrick Marber

 

[Whaevoz]

"At any second, through all the hours, he knew to a nickel how the pot stood and controlled the players like the deck." -- Nelson Algren

 

[Whaevoz]

"I assume you know poker, or at least—like a lot of people—anyway play it." -- William Faulkner

 

[reska11]

You don’t stop playing poker because you get old. You get old because you stop playing poker. — Amarillo Slim

 

[Rosylly]

"On your bike" — Tony G

 

[Whaevoz]

"Dwight Eisenhower recorded West Point classmates' poker losses for payment after graduation and later stopped playing because his opponents resented having to pay him." -- Jean Edward Smith

 

[Whaevoz]

You don t stop playing poker because you get old. You get old because you stop playing poker, is a variation of a famous quote attributed to George Bernard Shaw: We don t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing . This sentiment has also been associated with poker legend Doyle Brunson (used in the opening of Poker After Dark), who embraced the idea that staying active and engaged is key to maintaining vitality throughout life.

 

[85champ07]

"[P]oker is one of those rare pursuits In which it is possible to compete with the best in the world and not look ridiculous." - Peter Alson

 

[Rosylly]

“Poker is not a game of cards, it’s a game of people.” — Eric Seidel

 

[Rosylly]

"Poker is a hard way to make an easy living." — Doyle Brunson

 

[85champ07]

"If you’re good at reading people, it’s mostly because you learned as a child." - “Nightmare Alley”

 

[Whaevoz]

"If you’re good at reading people, it’s mostly because you learned as a child." -- “Nightmare Alley”

 

[Whaevoz]

"He picked up one of the packs and shuffled it slightly and quickly, cut it, and dealt me a king high flush in spades." -- Raymond Chandler

 

[Mazembe]

"poker is a war, people pretend it's a game"
Doyle

 

[CoucH]

"There’s a lot of fish at the table… and I’m the one with the worm."
— Tom Schneider

 

[Whaevoz]

"In my world, my enemies are ruthless. If I make nice, I get crushed." -- John Grisham

 

[Kaji Hokori]

"Poker isn't about playing the odds, it's about playing the man." - Harvey Specter from Suits

I know, not a quote by a real poker pro but this quote is imo also accurate

 

[Whaevoz]

"I lost my $100 buy-in before my seat got warm." -- John Lescroart

 

[Whaevoz]

"How about a little old Duck-in-the-Pond?’ . . . ‘Whazzat?’ grumbled Brush. He hated any silly variation of the fine old game of poker." -- James Thurber