Quotes About Poker

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

There were none of the card games marines usually played in downtimes. They were too tired to concentrate, and poker was serious business.

Timing the market is basically playing poker with the best players in the world who play round the clock with nearly unlimited resources.

When Myra appeared she said at once, Now, we want you boys to go on playing around just as if we weren't here. The first evening, he stayed out for poker with the guides, and she said in placid merriment, My! You're a regular bad one! The second evening, she groaned sleepily, Good heavens, are you going to be out every single night? The third evening, he didn't play poker.

But with rising stubbornness he asserted that if he had to take the arts as something in which he must pass an examination, he would chuck them altogether and be content with poker.

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

I thought of an old poker players' expression: If you look around the table and can't spot the sucker, the sucker is you.

I stopped playing online poker due to a combination of the UIGEA legislation and realizing that I could make more money with less effort by betting sports.

Players talk about pot odds all the time, especially when they try to justify a call that they made. Whenever I hear this line of reasoning, though, I can't help but wonder if they properly thought through the consequences of their call.

As a general rule, the more precious the chips you'd consider betting, the more you should lean toward playing it safe. Check it down; cautious play is usually the recipe for long-term success in poker.

Hyper-aggressive poker works best in deep-stack tournaments.

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

peeked at his cards and said, 'Ahhhh-ha,' with a tone of interested pleasure. They were an astonishing constellation of crap; his worst hand yet.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

Morals are an acquirement, like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis, no man is born with them.

He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again.

She had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.

Marty used to tell her she had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across her features like reflections on a still pond.

With 25/50 blinds, a loose-aggressive player raised to 150 out of his 2,500 stack from middle position. You decided to call with 9-8 from the button. Both of the blinds folded. The flop came 9-8-4 and your opponent made a continuation bet of 250 into the 375 pot.

My regular game in New York City was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.

The World Series of Poker has always attracted a competitive international field.

Rarely is it correct to play a hyper-aggressive style of poker. But there are certain situations where a seemingly reckless approach will actually be the most profitable strategy to employ, like at the Main Event at the World Series of Poker.

The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.

For five or six years, I didn't play in some of the good games leading up to the World Series of Poker, because with so many below-average players there, I reasoned it messed up my game.