10 Random Poker Quotes

• Nobody would play the game if the best hand always won. -Will Schwarz
• "Percentage players die broke too, Burt." -Fast Eddie Felson "The Hustler"
• "In the Poker Game of Life women are the rake, they are the ______ rake." -Worm
• For all you probability freaks, remember to consider the probability that an opponent is lying. Generally, liars dig holes and keep on lying, at least in the short run, as they try to climb out. Adjust your math prowess accordingly. Tells are paramount, as much or more as your calculating brain is. Poker becomes super-multi-variable when the psychological realm is joined with that already beautiful world of card probabilities. -- a mathematician
• God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffible game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. --Gaiman and Pratchett's "Good Omens"
• This above all else: To thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare
• The problem with slowplaying the nuts is that there might be somebody else slowplaying a hand they only think is the nuts. -Gary Carson
• women can't play poker cause they don't have the nuts
• Nixon financed his first political campaign with money he won playing poker against his fellow naval officers.
• "So again, do not raise in No Limit Hold'em -- especially tournaments -- if there is a reasonable chance that a reraise will make you throw up." -- David Sklansky (Tournament Poker for Advanced Players)