10 Random Poker Quotes

• "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
• Trying to find the odds (not percentage) for this hand. One person has JJ the other 1010. On the flop is J 10 10, what are the odds of this happening?
• "you got to know when to holdem, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, know when to run..."
• "Percentage players die broke too, Burt." -Fast Eddie Felson "The Hustler"
• 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
• There's only one concept to understand in poker: at the end walk out with more money than you walked in with.
• People who play poker often wear raw hide.
• "I got a full house! Whatchu got, sucker?" "Gee, does that beat me? All I got is two pair: a pair-a ones...and, uh, ANUDDA pair-a ones." -Nasta Canasta & Bugs Bunny, "Barbary Coast Bunny"
• "I guess if there weren't luck involved, I'd win every time." -Phil Hellmuth
• Frying bacon is much like playing poker; in each, a pig must be slaughtered and consumed by a superior being.