Quotes About Poker

When you play No Limit Hold'em, the ideal strategy is to take minimal risk, do little bluffing, and hope that weaker players call you when you have a strong hand. But that's the perfect world. Sometimes you'll face opponents that play very conservatively and will rarely pay you off when you have the goods.

I seldom reraise before the flop no matter what my hand is. By so doing, I'm able to disguise the strength of my hand and can trap unsuspecting opponents who interpret my smooth call as a sign of weakness.

The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent's strengths and weaknesses.

I still enjoy a wee game of poker now and then, but I'm not very good, and being Scottish, I don't like to lose that much money!

I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

I play quite an old-fashioned game of poker. It's a lot about getting a sense of people at the table rather than the maths of the thing.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

Just because you're sitting at a poker table with some guy doesn't give him the right to say whatever the hell he wants about the way you live your life.

Unless you are absolutely positive that your wife has no connection to the Mafia, even three or four times removed, do yourself a favor and do not bet her in a poker hand.

Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.

I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

Erik Seidel ended up introducing me to some of the best players in the world, a few of whom also agreed to take me on to coach me. So I had access to the best poker minds in the world to help me study and figure things out.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

It's imperative to save a few chips whenever possible when playing small-ball poker. You never want to risk a high percentage of your chips unless you're dealt a monster hand.

Models are interested in me, mostly because of my 'bad boy of poker' image.

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Hyper-aggressive poker is most effective in games where players are happy to just call rather than reraise.

I know Charles Michael Davis. I used to play poker with him when I lived in Los Angeles.

My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks.

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.