Top 287 Poker Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 27, 2024.
Look, I never enjoy risking my tournament life with a marginal hand, but if you want to be a poker champion, that's exactly what needs to be done. Just don't do it too often!
In poker, you've got to start at the bottom level and work your way up. This advice applies to the limits that you play and the sizing of the bets that you make.
I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
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.
The correct strategy in heads-up poker is based on identifying and acting upon your opponent's strengths and weaknesses.
The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
There were times in school where I would say, 'I should go to class.' But I could make $100 playing online poker if I didn't go.
I have always played cards during training camps. I used to play Italian card games, though. I rarely played poker.
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.
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.
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.
If you want to make money playing poker, find a game with a few suckers, fish, donkeys, live ones, or whatever you choose to call a bad player. Just don't let that sucker be you.
The goal of hyper-aggressive poker is to create a wild and crazy image that will return dividends when you're eventually dealt a monster hand.
I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.
Always keep in mind that poker is about limiting your losses and maximizing your gains on every hand you play.
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.
Every time I play darts I try to keep my poker face on and stay focused until that last dart has gone in.
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.
I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.
My father taught me poker at a very young age and I've been playing for money since I was 14 years old.
Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.
If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.
High-stakes gamblers love heart-racing Omaha-type action; normal poker players don't!
Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible.
I play a lot of board games, so you need to be quite good at strategy and poker faces so people can't always read your hand.
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Playing fast and aggressive poker can help manufacture chips out of thin air and is one element of the game that separates the great players from the merely very good. But beware; it can be risky.
I used to make it deep in poker tournaments without ever moving all-in because other players knew that when I raised it up, I had the goods.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
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.
Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.
Soft playing destroys the integrity of the game of poker, and it's wrong - flat out wrong.
I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It's such a mix of people, like a party. There's always an errand you can do along there, whether it's picking up contacts or buying poker chips.
I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.
Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.
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.
I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.
I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.
Swallow your pride and be completely objective about your own poker skill level. Only then can you implement an effective betting strategy.
You got paid on Friday, go for a late-night poker game, and have no money on Saturday. But the RSC took your rent out of the paycheck, so at least you had a place to sleep.
President Obama is a poker player, which the media used as part of the narrative that he was more calculated and careful as a politician.
Hyper-aggressive poker is most effective in games where players are happy to just call rather than reraise.
Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.
Everybody knows the World Series of Poker is the biggest stage in the world. This is where you make your name.
I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
I don't think anyone could have predicted that I would have gone in less than a year from not knowing how many cards were in a deck to winning a major poker title.
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 feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'
I'm neither here nor there about this Lady Gaga, but she's clearly very passionate about her poker face.
You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.
Investing in a poker game and investing in stocks, at least the way I do it, it's a very similar skillset.
ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don't become the sucker at the poker table.
You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.
I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.
You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation - whether it's a poker game or a bobsled team or a band - it's gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.
As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.
