Favorite Poker Quotes

[Whaevoz]

"An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen." -- Per Bak

 

[Whaevoz]

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[Whaevoz]

"So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness." -- Sidney Poitier

 

[gloria_marga]

“I may be the best player in the tournament, but if I'm not lucky...”
That's one of the many phrases my brother says.

 

[Whaevoz]

"When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience." -- Anonymous

 

[Rmi]

Life gives you the cards, you can't change them... but you decide how to make the move

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker is math; everything that happens in poker is a big word problem that can be converted into mathematical equations." -- Daniel Ashman

 

[Whaevoz]

“If luck weren’t involved, I would win every single time.” -- Phil Hellmuth

 

[monkeytilter]

"Don't play poker like a slot machine" - Ed Miller

 

[Whaevoz]

"Online poker lacks the charm of a live game. Conversation is limited. The sound effects get monotonous. You can’t play with your chips. Then again, you can play in your bathrobe---or without it." -- Phil Gordon

 

[Whaevoz]

"Good poker players know when to quit, but only after they’ve known what it is to lose." -- Jack Richardson

 

[Whaevoz]

“The two most important things to succeed in poker are first, find the muck and second, don’t play your money.” -- David “Devilfish” Ulliott

 

[Whaevoz]

"I'm known as a Professional gambler rather than just a Professional Poker player . . . and I have to admit that I am." -- Doyle Brunson

 

[Whaevoz]

"The lucky man is usually the man who knows how much to leave to chance." -- C.S. Forester

 

[pep12343]

Well, there are a lot of famous sayings, but in this harassment I prefer to quote some of my own.
“If poker is a game of chance, why are there professional players?”
“No matter how well you play, you'll lose 80% of the time” (based on an interview with Adrian Mateus)
“Poker always seeks to equalize and what better way than to get my chips and not from a bad player”
“My biggest rival is bad luck, my easiest rival is the one who doesn't know how to play, and mission impossible when both come together”

 

[Whaevoz]

"Probably less than 5 percent of those who play poker know the proper percentages involved in drawing out on a hand." -- Amarillo Slim

 

[Whaevoz]

"No-limit. There’s no other game in which fortunes can change so much from hand to hand." -- "Rounders"

 

[Sparta77]

Those who dare will win

 

[Whaevoz]

"The number of slobs you’ll see in a poker tournament defies any rational explanation." -- Phil Gordon

 

[Whaevoz]

“I learned poker that you don’t count your winnings because that’s when it starts to lose.” -- Kenneth Langone

 

[Whaevoz]

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." -- Andrew S. Grove

 

[Whaevoz]

"Gambling ain’t for lazy people." -- Robert B. Parker

 

[Whaevoz]

"Card games? The only game I know anything about is that game---let me see---I don’t know what the name is, but you put one card down on the table and four face up, and you bet." -- Harry S Truman

 

[LUKADONCICMVP]

More rake the better. By Daniel Negreanu

 

[Whaevoz]

"There are millions of tells you could write down if you could only think of them all." -- Mike Caro