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Poker Quotations
Below is a list of poker quotations that may be of interest:
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Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and
disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or
polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring or hard and impersonal.
It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and
just. — Lou Krieger
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If you can't spot the sucker within the
first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. — common
poker saying, as spoken by Matt Damon in Rounders; originally
attributed to Amarillo Slim
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Whether he likes it or not, a man's
character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other 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 cards, as in life. — Anthony Holden (from Big
Deal)
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There are few things that are so
unpardonably neglected in our country as poker... 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 one's species. — Mark Twain
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Nobody is always a winner, and anybody
who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker. — Amarillo
Slim
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They anticipate losing when they sit down
and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them. — Amarillo
Slim
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Poker is a game of people... It's not the
hand I hold, it's the people that I play with. — Amarillo Slim
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Hold 'em is to stud what chess is to
checkers. — Johnny Moss
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The guy who invented poker was bright,
but the guy who invented the chip was a genius. — Big Julie
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Last night I stayed up late playing poker
with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. — Steven
Wright
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
— Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)
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Poker is a godless game, full of random
pain. — Andy Bloch
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You call this one and it's all over,
baby. — Scotty Nguyen, during the 1998 World Series of Poker. Down
to him and one other player, he said this to his opponent who called,
and it was all over.
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Mae West: Is poker a game of chance? W.C.
Fields: Not the way I play it. — My Little Chickadee
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