10 Random Poker Quotes

• in the poker game of life women are the rake
• "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em." -Kenny Rogers
• I'm enough of a dreamer to realize it might have been that elusive something a gambler calls luck. But, I'm also enough of a realist to know that in general we make our own luck - through knowledge, skill and experience.- Doyle Brunson
• "It's hard work. Gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside. That probably sounds harsh. But that's the way it is at the poker table. If you don't believe me, then you're the lamb that's going off to the slaughter." Stu Unger, three-time WSOP Champion
• "I already messed this hand up pretty good, so I may as well call." Chris Ferguson
• The best thing about that hand was I wasn't in it
• 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'm broke one day and have a fortune the next day, and I don't give a damn" --Jack "Treetop" Straus--
• "You can shear a sheep many times; you can skin it only once." -- Amarillo Slim
• "never count your money when your sitting at the table, there will be time enough for counting, when the dealings done."