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I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
I'm like a poker player, bluffing with whatever cards equal a really shitty hand. I should mention that I have no fucking idea how to play poker. "You
Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.
Well, you played me, Rabbit. You played me, and it worked, and I'm not the kind of person to make the same mistake twice. Your whole life is a game, but you know what? I already have a life. Poker's nothing to me but a goddamn deck of cards.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
No-limit hold'em- Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.
Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.
I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.
I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.
My dad was a big card player.
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.
I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.
Life is like poker. Fair, random and risky.
As your crappy hand can win the game without it being seen, and even change mid-game.
-Alan Hernandez
Anybody who likes to play poker, if you want to find a good poker game, you're going to go play. It's not anything where I'm betting the house, like $100,000. You go, kick back, have fun, talk to some of the fans, enjoy it.
Categories No. 1 and No. 2: Rolled-up trips and three cards to a low straight flush.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.
The two men maintain firm eye contact. A poker game, both of them bluffing. Or pretending to.
The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.
Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.
I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!
This is a mess. A mess! Shraplin, you're probably sober-esque. How many cards in a standard deck?"
"Sixty, boss."
"How many cards presently visible in our hands or on the table?"
"Seventy-eight."
"That's ridiculous," said Amarelle. "Who's not cheating?
That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call.
It was a test. That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call. "Party
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls.
My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
You're a gambling man, right? Or do you only bet on frivolous things like poker and fucking women?
I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.
Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.
If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
In the card game you don't know your card lucky for you or bad for you this is depend on your luck.
Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.
What, playing with cards?" "It's a special kind of playing," said Twoflower. "It's called - " he hesitated. Language wasn't his strong point. "In your language it's called a thing you put across a river, for example," he concluded, "I think.
I play out the cards. They say: This is Heaven, this is Hell. It is one.
Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.
They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.
I love to play pool.
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.
Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.
I love online gambling.
Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.
I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
There are many games I love to play. Which one I put on the table depends on the mood and the level of experience of my opponents; I don't have a clear favorite.
If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.
You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.
If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love.
You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.
It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.
I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.
With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.
The world had been stirred by a hot poker, and sparks of crazy were flying.
One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.
That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.
You can't write music right unless you know how the man that'll play it plays poker.
You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that.
Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.
Listen, friend, he said, this whole game is just one big deck of cards. if you want to get into the game you have to take whatever comes up in the shuffle.
I don't like gambling very much. I don't like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.
In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.
I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.
The universe doesn't hand out blank cards to play. You will know your hand soon enough.
The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money.
Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.
Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.
The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?
From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.
Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.
It all boils down to the same thing: are you going to play the cards you got, or are you going to fold?
A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.
Gambling is a fascinating sport. When you are winning, you are like a human hurricane, nothing can stand in your way. You defy the Gods, or do you? In fact you impress them, as Bukowski said. When you are losing, you are an insignificant gimp.
Category No. 3: Two aces with a low card.
I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
A man's idee in a card game is war
Without gambling, I would not exist.
A psychologist plays the cards before the shuffle and the deal.
God lets people out to play poker?" This was too much for even me to believe and I was a Vampyre. A myth . . .
It's not so much about the cards you're dealt; it's a whole lot more about whether you play them well, or play them at all.
Antimacassars and pot holders. There were games with prizes
The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks.