10 Random Poker Quotes

• 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"
• Poker is like petting a cat, you need some hands.
• How can I miss the flop so bad that I don't even have a straight draw? -Jdoe
• You can't lead a horse to water, but a Donkey will follow you all the way to the River.
• 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
• I don't want to be called a good loser. A good loser is still a loser. -Stu Unger
• Frying bacon is much like playing poker; in each, a pig must be slaughtered and consumed by a superior being.
• The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing. --Nick the Greek
• 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
• "Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker." - Mike McDermott (Rounders, 1998)