10 Random Poker Quotes

• 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."
• "You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine." (Phil Ivey, to Howard Lederer)
• "It's always good to get a nice dick-suckin before a tournament...it calms the senses." Alex Powers
• "What's the sound of shuffling a single card?" - tidytom
• "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]
• "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)
• Asked why he played in a game known to be crooked, a player replied, "But it's the only game in town."
• "You will show your poker greatness by the hands you fold, not the hands you play." -Dan Reed
• Any two cards can lose... and they usually do.
• "Poker is 100% skill, 50% luck" - Phil Hellmuth