Poker Quotes
Some of the Most Famous Poker Quotes If you play a lot of poker you may hear some of the following famous poker quotes: "It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside. That probably sounds harsh. But that's the way it is at the poker table. If you don't believe me, then you're the lamb that's going off to the slaughter."
- Stu Unger, three-time WSOP Champion “You call this one and it's all over, baby.”
- Scotty Nguyen, during the 1998 World Series of Poker. Down to him and one other player, he said this to his opponent who called, and it was all over. “Hold 'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.”
- Johnny Moss “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. It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”
- Lou Krieger “If you can't spot the sucker within the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.”
- as spoken by Matt Damon in Rounders; originally attributed to Amarillo Slim “Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare 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.”
- Anthony Holden (from Big Deal) “There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker... Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kindhearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a 'flush'. It is enough to make one ashamed of one's species.”
- Mark Twain “Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.”
- Amarillo Slim “They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them.”
- Amarillo Slim “Poker is a game of people... It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with.”
- Amarillo Slim “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 "Treetop" Strauss Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom. ~VP Pappy “The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.”
- David Shoup “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.”
- Lou Krieger “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 "The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius."
- Big Julie "He said, "Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes."
- Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler"
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