Celebrity Poker Online Poker Quotes!

Yeah, well, sometimes nothing' can be a real cool hand.
- Cool Hand Luke, 1967.

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.

I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a champion and make a sucker out of him.
- Slim Preston

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the poker chip was a genius.
- Slim Preston

When I step into a poker room, I'm ready to play. If you're going up against me, you'd better be ready. If you're not, I'll take your money.
- Slim Preston

Poker is played with the mind and not with the hands!
- Slim Preston

Never criticize another poker player until you have walked a mile in his shoes. That way you will be a mile away when you criticize him, and you will have his shoes.
- Slim Preston

My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.
- Slim Preston

There is a very easy way to return from a hi stake poker room with a small fortune. Go there with a large one.
- Slim Preston

My father taught me how to play poker. Now I own his house.
- Slim Preston

Sklansky is for me more or less the author of the only poker books which could help me get away from all other poker books. Once you're game has reached a certain level, you get the impression that everything Sklansky writes, is the truth.
- Slim Preston

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.

The flop in Texas Hold'em is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonne get.
- John Scarne, legendary gambling author.

Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers.
- Johnny Moss

The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.
- Big Julie

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
- Steven Wright

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 loser in cards, as in life.
- Anthony Holden (from Big Deal)

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
- Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)

You call...gonna be all over, baby.
- Scotty Nguyen, during the 1998 World Series of Poker. Down to the final 2 players, he said this to his opponent while he held the best possible hand.

When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.
- David Sklansky on Poker

Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life - but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score.
- From Big Deal by Anthony Holden

Poker reveals to the frank observer something else of import-it will teach him about his own nature. Many bad players do not improve because the cannot bear self-knowledge.
- David Mamet on Poker

The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That's the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they're willin' to lose everything. If they win, they're usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.
- Pug Pearson on Poker

The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing did cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.
- From A Girlhood Among Gamblers by Katy Lederer

It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it..
- Amarillo Slim on Poker:

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
- Seven Wright

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
- Author Unknown

[Poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.
- Walter Matthau

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

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
- Jonathan Swift

How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?
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All your life, son.
- Michael Pertwee

Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking.
- Nick Dandalos

In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket.
- Beausourire

I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream. Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and - when played well, nourishes the wallet.
- Lou Krieger

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
- Jackie Robinson

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.
- Lou Krieger

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

Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.
- Lou Krieger

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

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
- Paul Newman

If you are a guy, you know you play too much poker if your wet dreams involve 'nuts' instead breasts.
- BreakEvenPlayer

Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.
- Amarillo Slim Preston

If you are the 10th best player in the world you are still gonna lose if you are sitting amongst the nine best players.
- Unknown

No matter how much you may want to think of Holdém as a card game played by people, in many respects it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people that happens to be played with cards.
- Phil Hellmuth

Ace is not good, Ace is God.
- William Wigstrom

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

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.
- Crandall Addington, Texas oil millionaire

If you reraise a raiser, and he doesn't raise you back, you know he has kicker problems.
- Crandall Addington, Texas oil millionaire (2001)

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
- Alfred Alvarez (2001)

Serious poker is no more about gambling than rock climbing is about taking risks.
- Alfred Alvarez (2001)

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression: If you cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
- Alfred Alvarez (2001)

Never give a sucker an even break.
- Anonymous

A faint heart never filled a spade flush.
- Anonymous

A king can do no wrong... unless it runs into an ace.
- Anonymous

Money isn't everything... unless you're playing in a rebuy tournament.
- Anonymous

Your first duty is to the Game; then come Mother, God, and Country.
- Anonymous, Motto at the National Press Club, Washington D.C.

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

Once you start thinking you have nothing left to learn, you have everything to learn.
- Steve Badget

Playing poker for a living gives you backbone. You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart.
- Bobby Baldwin, 1978 WSOP winner (2001)

In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket.
- Beausourire, Haitian Poker Player

In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know.
- Rick Bennet

Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.
- Benny Binion

The only bad luck for a good gambler is bad health. Any other setbacks are temporary aggravation.
- Benny Binion

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing!
- Doyle Bunson

If you're a competitive person and you commit yourself to something, you have no choice but to endure.
- Vince Burgio

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.
- Mike Caro

Sometimes you'll miss a bet, sure, but it's OK to miss a bet. Poker is an art form, of course, but sometimes you have to sacrifice art in favour of making a profit.
- Mike Caro

Bad beats only happen to good players.
- Joe Crow (1998)

If it were easy, everyone would do it.
- Bonnie Damiano

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
- Nick The Greek Dandalos

Life is too long to play bad cards.
- Frank Di Elsi

Is that the game where one receives five cards? And if there's two alike that's pretty good, but if there's three alike, that's much better?
- W C Fields

Sir, I really like poker. Every hand has its different problems.
- Henry Fonda, playing Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine

To master poker and make it profitable, you must first master patience and discipline, as a lack of either is a sure disaster regardless of all other talents, or lucky streaks.
- Freddie Gasperian

The single greatest key to winning is knowing thy enemy - yourself.
- Andy Glazer

I never saw a poker player's money that I did not like.
- Oklahoma Johnny Hale

Poker is not a game in which the meek inherit the earth.
- David Hayano (1982)

Play like a champ. Win like a champ. Act like a champ.
- Henderson, Frank

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.
- Anthony Holden, author of Big Deal (1990)

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.
- Anthony Holden, author of Big Deal (1990)

Perception is reality.
- Immanuel Kant

Forget about a chip and a chair; give me a hand and I'll stand.
- Warren Karp

All I know is, if the cards ever break even - I'm screwed.
- Rich Korbin

If the shoe fits, steal it.
- Lou Krieger

Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out.
- Moms Mabley, Dirty old lady comedian

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
- David Mamet

Poker is the only game for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and evern man's hand is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork?
- Somerset Maugham

If you know poker, you know people; and if you know people, you got the whole dang world lined up in your sights.
- Brett Maverick

There is more to poker than life.
- Tom McEvoy

You have to learn what kind of hand this guy shows down, what that one's moves, watch the veins in his neck, watch his eyes, the way he sweats.
- Johnny Moss (1975)

Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em.
- Puggy Pearson, 1973 WSOP winner (1975)

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.
- Grantland Rice, Sportswriter

One day a chump, the next day a champion. What a difference a day makes in tournament poker.
- Mike Sexton

The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time.
- General David Shoup

Put yourself in their shoes before you decide on the best way to take their shirts.
- David Sklansky

The odds are merely a framework for play, like the lines of a tennis court.
- David Spanier (1901)

It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.
- Chuck Thompson

If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.
- Chuck Thompson

In poker, money is power.
- Alvin Clarence Titanic Thomson

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.
- Mark Twain

Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.
- Stu Ungar

A card player should learn that once the money is in the pot, it isn't his any longer.
- Herbert Yardley (1957)

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

Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
- Cool Hand Luke, 1967

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
- Anonymous

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

Mr. Moss, I have to let you go.
- Nick the Greek Dandalos

Patience. And shuffle the cards.
- Cervantes, Don Quioxte

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

See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks cardplaying is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money... M-O-N-E-Y. That's how you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how you keep score.
- Stu Unger

It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- Gore Vidal

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