Great
Poker
Quotes
"Poker
is a lot
like
sex,
everyone
thinks
they are
the
best,
but most
don't
have a
clue
what
they are
doing!"
--Dutch
Boy'd
"These
two have
no idea
what
they're
about to
walk
into.
Down
here to
have a
good
time,
they
figure,
Why not
give
poker a
try?
After
all, how
different
can it
be from
the home
games
they've
played
their
whole
lives?
Luck.
All the
luck in
the
world
isn't
going to
change
things
for
these
guys.
They're
simply
overmatched.
We're
(the
pros at
the
table)
not
playing
together,
but
we're
not
playing
against
each
other,
either.
It's
like the
Nature
Channel.
You
don't
see
piranhas
eating
each
other,
do you?"
--Mike
from
Rounders
"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."
--Mark
Twain
"I've
always
had
confidence,
but I
never
let my
ego get
to the
point
that I
think
I'm the
superstar,
because
I know
that ego
has
destroyed
many a
poker
career."
Jim
Boyd,
modern-day
road
gambler
"How
long
does it
take to
learn
poker,
Dad?"
"All
your
life,
son."
David
Spanier,
"Total
Poker"
(1977)
"I
recently
watched
a novice
win
$10,000
in an
hour-long
poker
session
at the
Dunes
Hotel
Casino
in Las
Vegas
from
five men
who are
considered
to be
among
the
twenty
best
Poker
players
in Las
Vegas.
That was
chance,
a
momentary
aberration
in the
probabilities.
They are
inevitable
in any
gambling
game. If
it
weren't
for them
- and
the
long-odds
winning
they
make
possible
-
gambling
would be
barren
of what
makes it
gambling.
Certainly
luck
operates,
to this
limited
extent,
within
the
theory
of
probability.
All that
theory
guarantees
is that
ultimately
each
player
will
have
been
dealt an
approximately
equal
number
of
opportunities
to win,
an
approximately
equal
number
of good,
bad, and
indifferent
hands."
John
Scarne,
legendary
gambling
author
"If,
after
the
first
twenty
minutes,
you
don't
know who
the
sucker
at the
table
is, it's
you."
--Unknown
"Yeah,
well,
sometimes
nothing'
can be a
real
cool
hand. "
Cool
Hand
Luke,
1967
"The
difference
between
genius
and
stupidity
is that
genius
has its
limits"
--Anonymous
"I never
go
looking
for a
sucker.
I look
for a
Champion
and make
a sucker
of of
him."
"Amrillo"
Slim
Preston
"Really
Bad
Players
Joining
Daily.
Come Win
Some of
Their
Money."
"Superior
Poker"
ad
"If you
are a
guy, you
know you
play too
much
poker if
your wet
dreams
involve
"nuts"
instead
of
breasts."
Breakeven
Player
"It is
better
to make
people
think
you are
a bad
poker
player,
then to
play and
remove
all
doubt.
Don't
play to
impress,
play to
win."
Michael
Gersitz
"Don't
get mad
that you
lost,
get mad
because
you
didn't
win."
Michael
Gersitz
