A Quote by Penn Jillette

Every poker player is smarter than me. — © Penn Jillette
Every poker player is smarter than me.
Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.
Every poker player has ups and downs because luck is also involved. When a great poker player smashes, he's making the right moves and making the right reads and he's getting lucky.
I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.
To be a great poker player, you're going to have to learn this fact: Everything that's said at a poker table is worth listening to. It's all information that you can use to make better decisions, whether people are talking about baseball, politics, or, oh yeah, poker.
What you see on a lot of televised poker is highlight-reel poker. That's why I used to like 'Poker After Dark' so much. It used to catch us playing almost every single hand... It is more of a grind than people think.
Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.
I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.
I've been at the table with some really great poker players. I'm sure Vince McMahon is a hell of a poker player.
It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance.
I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.
I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.
Some people know me as the bad boy of professional poker and call me The Poker Brat. Sometimes I deserve that nickname, but not always.
I definitely feel like I'm a smarter player than when I first entered the League.
I think just by the nature of getting older, I hope that I'm a smarter basketball player than I was at 23.
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