Quotes About Gambling

The strategy is to bet your entire bankroll each race, apportioning it among the horses according to your informed estimate of each horse's chance of winning.

The manner in which a man chooses to gamble indicates his character or his lack of it.

False as dicers' oaths.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating.

It's like Russian Roulette, one in six'll kill you.

Few people win consistently, so the tax situation shouldn't matter. But one overriding thing about gamblers is that they always think they are going to win, despite years of evidence to the contrary.

Almost all investors I know, who consider themselves proper investors according to the definition above, like to do the occasional trade, punt on pure speculation. But they do it with money they consider part of their gambling portfolio, or play money. They would never risk their financial well being by mindlessly gambling with their main wealth. What

The clip-joints are filled every night with marks who crave the tat," said one con man. "If you gave one of them an even break, it would spoil his evening.

Augur may be destined to become the web's answer to gambling prohibition—it will do to the betting man what the silk road did to the drug user—but you'd never know it from talking to the developers of the system.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Artists, by nature, are gamblers. Gambling is a dangerous habit. But whenever you make art, you're always gambling. You're rolling the dice on the slim odds that your investment of time, energy, and resources now might pay off later in a big way—that somebody might buy your work, and that you might become successful.

Was this America--this my home Prohibition and Teapot Dome-- Speakeasies, night clubs, illicit stills, Dark faces peering behind dark grills, Hold-ups, kidnappings, hootch or booze-- Everyone gambling--you just can't lose, Was this my country?

In reality St. Louis is located in a segregated South, filthy with paddleboat gambling, river mud, and hot white hate.

You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be here...." The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered, "I could go make some calls... check on some things..." "Play some blackjack?" "Well, when in Rome..." "Rome is tomorrow, babe," Kat reminded him. He nodded. "Right.

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.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

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.

High-stakes gamblers love heart-racing Omaha-type action; normal poker players don't!

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.

If you are in a poker game for money and are taking it easy on one of your buddies, you are cheating yourself, your friend, and every other player in the game.