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"Never play poker for money with strangers, especially with a deck of cards that has been opened." - Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy
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"See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks cardplaying is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money... M-O-N-E-Y. That's how you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how you keep score." - Stu Ungar
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"In a game of poker, I can put the players' soul in my pocket." -Beausourire
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"When I played pool I was like a good psychiatrist. Icured 'em all of their daydreams and delusions" - Minnesota Fats
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"Experience is something yo uget right after you lose the hand." -Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy
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"The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you arep laying with or, more particularly, with the cards. There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips." - William J. Florence |
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"Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math." - Unknown
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"The guy who invented poker was bright, but hte guy who invented the chip was a genius." - Big Julie
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"I must complain that the cards are ill shuffled till I ahve a good hand." - Jonathan Swift
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"I've lost money so fast in these clubs it's left me reeling. I've read every poker book ever written, but the only way to get better at the game is to go out and play with people who are really good. The problem is, you stand to lose a lot of money doing it." - Matt Damon
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"I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It' sthe people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime taht you take the first step towards trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!" - Phil Hellmuth
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"There two have no idea what they're about to walk into. Down here to have a good time, they figure, WHy not give poker a try? After all, how different can it be from the home games they've played their whole lives? Luck. All the luck in the world isn't gonna change things for these guys. They're simply overmatched. We're (the pros at the table) not playing together, but we're not playing against eachother, either. It's like the Nature Channel. You don't see piranhas eating each other, do you?" - Matt Damon in Rounders
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"The Wampanoag Tribe as a machine, and they say "It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that's "idiot friendly"." -Willia F. Weld
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"Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and ever man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you." - W. Somerset Maugham
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"I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table." - Al Alvarez
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"Poker. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown." - Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
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"Poker players are liek tea bags. You really don't knwo what they're made of until you put them in hot water." - Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy
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"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." - Steven Wright
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"I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege." - Jack Binion
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"The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt by those with an academic bent." - David Mamet
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"Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting." - Lou Krieger
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"Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player." -Tim Page
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"Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money." -Unknown
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"The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That's the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they're willin' to lose everything. If they win, they're usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that." - Pug Pearson
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"Nobody is awlays a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker." - Amarillo "Slim" Preston
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-Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing!
- Doyle Bunson
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-Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.
- Benny Binion
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-Once you start thinking you have nothing left to learn, you have everything to learn.
- Steve Badget
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-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.☺
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-Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression: If you cards are good enough for your to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
- Alfred Alvarez
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