Steve Lipscomb: “Poker is for cards and games just like jazz is for music. It is this incredible American thing, born and raised here. Everyone can play. ”
Phil Hellmuth: "No matter how much you may want to think of Holdem as a card game played by people, in many ways, it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people who happen to be played with cards."
Julius ‘Big Julie’ Weintraub: "Whoever invented poker is brilliant, but whoever invented chips was a genius."