10 Random Poker Quotes

• "Not all trappers wear 'coon-skin hats."
• Any two cards can lose... and they usually do.
• "I thought it was jack's" - Phil Helmuth Jr. WSOP vs. Jason Lester
• "Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker EVERY YEAR? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas?" - Mike McDermott (Rounders, 1998)
• The problem with slowplaying the nuts is that there might be somebody else slowplaying a hand they only think is the nuts. -Gary Carson
• some call cheating immoral, but then again, it's immoral to let a sucker keep his money.
• I'm too good for you, you might as well flip those 2 cards over.
• "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]
• "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
• Nixon financed his first political campaign with money he won playing poker against his fellow naval officers.