.: Poker Quotes
David Sklansky on Poker
“When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that
we are out to make money.”
From Big Deal by Anthony Holden
"Poker may 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."
David Mamet on Poker
"Poker reveals to the frank observer something else of import—it
will teach him about his own nature. Many bad players do not improve
because the cannot bear self-knowledge."
Bobby Baldwin on Poker
"You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call
heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he
is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty
days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you
have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away."
Jack Strauss on Poker
"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."
From Poker Nation by Andy Bellin
"In the absence of any mathematical explanation, one thing
is for certain; if you engage in games of chance long enough, the
experience is bound to affect the way you see God. Successfully
draw to an inside straight three hands in a row, and you’ve
got to be blessed. But if you’re the person drawn out on,
the one whose trip aces just got snapped for the third time, you
will go home feeling cursed."
From The Gentleman’s Handbook on Poker by William J. Florence
"The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either
with those you are playing 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."
Pug Pearson on Poker
“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.”
From A Girlhood Among Gamblers by Katy Lederer
"The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing did cards, worse
even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally
involved."
Amarillo Slim on Poker:
“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..”
Author Unknown
"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented
the chip was a genius."
Author Unknown
"If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the
sucker at the table is, it's you."
Seven Wright
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards.
I got a full house and four people died."
W. Somerset Maugham
"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 every 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."
Walter Matthau
"[Poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have
made our country so great."
V.P. Pappy
"Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the
bathroom."
Mark Twain
"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in
our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it.
Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge
of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I
have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere,
and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush."
It is enough to make one ashamed of the species."
David Shoup
"The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent;
it happens at the poker table all the time."
Jonathan Swift
"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good
hand."
Michael Pertwee
"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?"
"All your life, son."
Nick Dandalos, attributed
"Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking."
John Luckacs
"Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life,
where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where
free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where
men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short
run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think
happens."
Charles Lamb
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
Beausourire
"In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket."
Lou Krieger
"I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream.
Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect,
heals the spirit, and - when played well, nourishes the wallet."
Ambrose Bierce
"Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose
to this lexicographer unknown."
David A. Daniel
"Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure
on the high seas of human nature."
Robert Williamson III
"Poker's a day to learn and a lifetime to master."
Anthony Holden
"Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped
at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he
does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared
to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in
cards, as in life."
William Cowper
"With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,
And spades, the emblems of untimely graves."
David Mamet
"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 of by those with an academic bent."
Lou Krieger
"Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism
and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable
and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately
it is fair, and right, and just."
Jackie Robinson
"Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's
losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead."
Steve Lipscomb
"Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this
great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody
can play."
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, 1991
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable
game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective
of any of the other players [i.e., everybody], to being involved
in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room,
with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell
you the rules, and who smiles all the time."
Lou Krieger
"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."
Raymond Chandler
"[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you
could find outside an advertising agency."
Lou Krieger
"You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply
by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter,
the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents
who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone
who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone."
Author Unknown
"Old card players never die, they just shuffle away."
David Moschella
"Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about
strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you
have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with
luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a
poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever
hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the
table until someone proves otherwise."
Lou Krieger
"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."
Jack Binion
"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."
Lou Krieger
"There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive
today, his advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow
up with the country." Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards
on table and say, "Shuffle up and deal."
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