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101 Famous Poker Quotes
by Rich McComas (updated May 5, 2004)
Please send me an email atrich@holdemsecrets if you know of anything that should be included in this list.
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)
Poker is generally reckoned to be America's second most popular after-dark activity. Sex is good, they say, but poker lasts longer.
-- Alfred Alvarez (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 your 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 (1905)
Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money.
-- 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
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.
-- Anonymous
Besides lovemaking and singing in the shower, there aren’t many human activities where there is a greater difference between a person’s self-delusional ability and actual ability than in poker.
-- Steve Badget
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
I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege.
-- Jack 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
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
-- Vannevar Bush, architect of the Internet
Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards.
-- George Carlin
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
It's unlucky to be superstitious.
-- Dave Enteles, Card Player
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)
Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other poker players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in poker, as in life.
-- Anthony Holden, author of Big Deal (1990)
Egotism is the anesthetic provided by nature to dull the pain of being a damn fool.
-- Chuck Humphrey
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you will be a mile away, and you will have his shoes.
-- Chuck Humphrey
It's morally wrong to let a sucker keep money.
-- Canada Bill Jones
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
Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. Poker can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately poker is fair, and right, and just.
-- Lou Krieger
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
-- Charles Lamb (1832)
Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens.
-- Johnny Luckacs (1963)
Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out.
-- Jackie 'Moms' Mabley, Dirty old lady comedian
Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
-- David Mamet
The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.
-- Walter Matthau
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
To be a poker champion, you must have a strong bladder.
-- Jack McClelland
There is more to poker than life.
-- Tom McEvoy
Everybody blows their first money.
-- Lorne Michaels
Gambling, the sure way of getting nothing for something.
-- Wilson Mizner, Con man and promoter
Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the poker table until someone proves otherwise.
-- David Moschella
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)
Hold'em is to to stud and draw what chess is to checkers.
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-- Johnny Moss, 3x World Champion
Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming.
-- Puggy Pearson, 1973 WSOP winner (2001)
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)
Everything is mental in life. The butt was made to lug the mind around.
-- 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
If you can't spot the sucker in the first half an hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
-- Rounders, the movie (2000)
The deal is of no special value, and anybody may begin.
-- Robert Schenck, First to introduce poker to England (1872)
One day a chump, the next day a champion. What a difference a day makes in tournament poker.
-- Mike Sexton
They say poker is a zero-sum game. It must be, because every time I play my sum ends up zero.
-- Max Shapiro
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
Omaha is a game that was invented by a Sadist and is played by Masochists.
-- Shane Smith
The odds are merely a framework for play, like the lines of a tennis court.
-- David Spanier (1901)
Poker... I hardly even know her!
-- Jack Styles
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
-- Jonathan Swift (1728)
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
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In poker, money is power.
-- Alvin Clarence 'Titanic' Thomson, A legand of hustles & cons, 1892-1974 (1982)
I won my ticket on Titanic in a lucky hand of poker...a very lucky hand.
-- Jack, in the Movie Titanic
A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walk around being lucky and not know it.
-- Robert Turner
There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about poker. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of poker, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a 'flush'. It is enough to make one ashamed of the species.
-- Mark Twain
Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.
-- Mark Twain?
The two things you need to be successful in poker are, first, find the muck, and second, don’t play your own money.
-- David 'Devilfish' Ulliott
Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.
-- Stu Ungar
Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on.
-- Felix 'The Odd Couple' Unger
It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside.
-- Stu Unger, Three-time WSOP Champion
The guy who invented gambling was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.
-- Julius 'Big Julie' Weintraub, a New York gambler who ran junkets to Vegas (1974)
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
-- Steven Wright
A card player should learn that once the money is in the pot, it isn't his any longer.
-- Herbert Yardley (1957)
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People are talking about the game of poker all the time. Poker players, of course, but actors, writers, even philosophers, everyone is coming up with a poker quote as a metaphor for life. Or are we just imagining this? Some of the top poker quotes we’ve collected here are quite profound.
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Take a look at the poker quotes listed below. Perhaps we’ve missed one of your favorite poker sayings? Comment and let us know!
Mary Austin: “People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.”
Rick Bennet: “In the long run there’s no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know.”
Steve Lipscomb: “Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It’s this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play.”
Benny Binion: “Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.”
Dutch Boyd: “Poker is a lot like sex, everyone thinks they are the best, but most don’t have a clue what they are doing!”
Doyle Brunson: “May the flop be with you.”
Mike Caro: “Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.”
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Sammy Farha: “Just play every hand, you can’t miss them all.”
Michael Gersitz: “Don’t get mad that you lost, get mad because you didn’t win.”
Phil Hellmuth: “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.”
Anthony Holden: “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.”
Warren Karp: “Forget about a chip and a chair; give me a hand and I’ll stand.”
Lou Krieger: “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.”
Charles Lamb: “Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
Joe Laurie Jr.: “If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.”
Katy Lederer: “The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing dead cards, worse even than figuring your odds incorrectly, is becoming emotionally involved.”
W. Somerset Maugham: “Poker’s the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man’s, and every man’s is against yours.”
Jesse May: “Poker is a combination of luck and skill. People think mastering the skill part is hard, but they’re wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck.”
Jack McClelland: “To be a poker champion, you must have a strong bladder.”
Tom McEvoy: “No-limit hold’em: Hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.”
Johnny Moss: “Hold’em is to stud what chess is to checkers.”
Paul Newman: “A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.”
Mark Pilarski: “The smarter you play, the luckier you’ll be.”
Mike Sexton: “The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold’em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.”
Amarillo Slim: “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.”
Jonathan Swift: “I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.”
Stu Ungar: “Fold and live to fold again.”
Julius ‘Big Julie’ Weintraub: “The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.”
Did we miss your favorite poker quote? Comment and let us know!