10 Random Poker Quotes

• The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing. --Nick the Greek
• Asked why he played in a game known to be crooked, a player replied, "But it's the only game in town."
• "if you riffle shuffle a standard deck exactly 9 times the cards will return to its original position as it were prior to the 9 riffle shuffles."
• I'd rather be good than lucky, I'd rather be lucky than lose...
• You can't lead a horse to water, but a Donkey will follow you all the way to the River.
• "Just play every hand, you can't miss them all." -Sammy Farha's reply to, "How does he do it?"
• "never count your money when your sitting at the table, there will be time enough for counting, when the dealings done."
• Upon entering a cardroom in which a player had never before played, he asked the floorman for a 10-20 hold-em seat. The floorman dutifully put him on the list and told him that the only available seat was at 3-6 Omaha HiLo. The player quipped, "No, I don't have enough money to play limits that high."
• 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.
• "I want him to think that I am pondering a call, but all I'm really thinkin about it Vegas and the fuckin' Mirage." - Mike McDermott (Rounders, 1998)