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"We'll never talk about gambling around my house."
- Doyle Brunson
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"In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there."
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"I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine and fame, the table, even ambition, sate not and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else." - Lord Byron
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"No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner." -Lord Dewar
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"It never hurts for potental opponents to hink 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 Preston
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"The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing did cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved." -Kate Lederer
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"Poker maybe be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life- but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score."
-Anthony Holden
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"Don't bother praying to God when you are playing poker. He's much too busy answering all those lottery player's prayers." - Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy
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"Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you are shooting at a traget.
In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you." - Jack Strauss
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"When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money." - David Sklansky
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"Ida and Pears, the two Jewish broads from Cheyenne, that's how they were known. One of my first memories of my grandmother is of her trying to teach me how to play poker when I couldn't evens ee the table. I'd dress up and try to go gambling with the old ladies, and for some reason they'd led me in." - Gina Gershon
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"I still do my best to promote poker." - Doyle Brunson
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"I've had enough confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because i know that ego has destroyed many a poker career." -Jim Boyd
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"If you are a guy, you know you play too much poker if your wet dreams involve "nuts" instead of breasts." - Unknown
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"It is better ot make people think you are a bad poker player, then to play and remove all doubt. Don't play to impress, play to win." - Michael Gersitz
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"Take advice from experts until you become one yourself." - Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy
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-Texas Holdem takes 5 minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master!
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-You got to know when to hold'em, know when to fold 'em.
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-If you don't learn something new every time you play poker, then you aren't doing your job.
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-In the first round of the World Series, as well as in the first round of the smaller buy-in events at the WSOP, a pair of kings is not a big enough hand to go broke with. The only hand that is big enough to go broke with before the flop is two aces.
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-Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.
- Amarillo Slim
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-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
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-Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.
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-The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be.
- Mark Pilarski
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-Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you.
- Jack Strauss
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-A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walk around being lucky and not know it.
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-Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.
- Lou Krieger
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-If you know poker, you know people; and if you know people, you got the whole dang world lined up in your sights.
- Brett Maverick
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-Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out.
- Jackie Mabley
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-The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.
- Anthony Holden
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