10 Random Poker Quotes

• I have found that when my reasoning for making a call amounts to, "Aww, fuck it." it is usually the wrong move.
• "You can shear a sheep many times; you can skin it only once." -- Amarillo Slim
• There is less luck involved than a bad player thinks there is, and there more luck involved than a good player will admit there is
• Sometimes doing the right thing loses you money and the wrong thing gains you money. The trick is figuring the right time to do the wrong thing and the wrong time to do the right thing.
• The greatest feeling is when you've broken your opponent's spirit & crushed his confidence. The fact that you've taken both his bankroll & the shirt off his back is just a bonus. Tom V. (Livonia, Michigan)
• Right now I only play online poker. If I ever play live poker, raise preflop with a good hand, get called by someone with a 52 who hits a straight, I am walking over to that person to knock out his teeth. Congratulations you idiot.
• I don't really mind getting bad beats. Of course, 9 times out of 10, my superior cards will win. But that 1 time in 10 that someone catches lucky cards and beats me, I don't get mad. Because each of the next 9 times they think they can catch something adds another inch to my television.
• Think of how stupid the median poker player is. By definition, half of them are dumber than that.
• If only I'd read, "Winning at Internet Poker For Dummies." 'Til now, I never thought I qualified.
• "You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine." (Phil Ivey, to Howard Lederer)