10 Random Poker Quotes

• I played poker with a real 10 last night, however on a slow night she only charges 5!
• "I already messed this hand up pretty good, so I may as well call." Chris Ferguson
• "Percentage players die broke too, Burt." -Fast Eddie Felson "The Hustler"
• "There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. 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 the species." --Mark Twain
• 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
• "First you're a champ, then you're a chimp, then you're a chump." [I was told this was a quote from Phil Hellmuth]
• Asked why he played in a game known to be crooked, a player replied, "But it's the only game in town."
• (after a particularly bad beat) "that was a terrible call" "it's called gambling" "no it's called really sucking at life especially poker and trying to throw your money away because your life is useless and you have been pondering suicide for the last week but getting lucky enough to keep it"
• Remember these three simple words and you'll never go broke........ "Stick em Up!"
• Nixon financed his first political campaign with money he won playing poker against his fellow naval officers.