10 Random Poker Quotes

• "That's the best I ever misread a hand." Unknown NL holdem tourney player at Taj Mahal, December 2003, after going all in on the flop, mistakenly believing he had a flush, but rivering a flush anyway
• Great poker players are separated from good poker players not by how they win their hands, but how they lose them.
• Think of how stupid the median poker player is. By definition, half of them are dumber than that.
• I'd rather be good than lucky, I'd rather be lucky than lose...
• I have found that when my reasoning for making a call amounts to, "Aww, fuck it." it is usually the wrong move.
• Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear.
• "Never go broke in an unraised pot" -T.J. Cloutier
• If you play 69, always bet on the come.
• 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"
• "The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent." -- David Mamet