Quotes About Poker

Moving all-in with a small pair from early position only makes sense when you are severely short-stacked and desperately need to pick up the blinds.

I'M PLAYING LOOSE — Game: Average 2 players before the flop Action: First to the pot, and raising Players: 9- to 10-handed

What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.

Some players like to add a little more spice to their no-limit Hold 'em game. They add a live blind, also known as a straddle, where the player to the left of the big blind voluntarily puts up twice the big blind before looking at his hole cards. The player in the straddle then has the option to raise it up when the action returns to him.

I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can't wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.

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.

My primary game is to put my chips into the pot only when I'm super-strong. I tend to fold a lot of hands while waiting around for those strong hands to come.

I can bluff with the best of them.

On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.

I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.

If you want to make money playing poker, find a game with a few suckers, fish, donkeys, live ones, or whatever you choose to call a bad player. Just don't let that sucker be you.

I like to peruse the Full Contact Poker online forums to read and comment on posts about interesting poker hands and whether they were played properly. I find that many of the contributors consistently suffer from the same problem: they are far too preoccupied with statistically insignificant aspects of a poker hand.

Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.

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.

Look, Kate, we were just making conversation. It's a fifteen-hour drive and we made it without stopping. I was just trying to make sure that Sam didn't fall asleep." "By asking him questions about me?" "Don't read more into it than there is. We'd covered every other topic. You were the last thing we had in common." He realized his mistake too late. His poker face caved, his cheeks turned red.

Näen unta, että pelaan pokeria. En ole koskaan pelannut pokeria, joten tietenkin häviän. Äitisi onnistuu sujauttamaan koripallon rulettipöytään ja saa kaikki numerot oikein yhtä aikaa.

Category No. 3: Two aces with a low card.

Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.

Every card player in Hollywood wanted to come to the games. Everyone's friends and their friends wanted to come to watch.

It's rare to find these true coin flip situations in Hold'em but surprisingly common in Omaha. That's one of the reasons why Omaha is the perfect game for action junkies who relish the notion of flipping coins for large sums of money.

In poker the highest hand is a royal straight-flush in spades.

My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

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.