10 Random Poker Quotes

• "The lucky player is usually the player that knows how much to leave to chance." flintsword
• Poker is like sex - everyone thinks that they are the best at it but few actually know what they are doing - Layne Flack
• "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
• "I'd rather be lucky than good" - Lefty Gomez
• Great poker players are separated from good poker players not by how they win their hands, but how they lose them.
• 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"
• Seldom do the lambs slaughter the butcher. -Amarillo Slim
• If you don't want to get beat on the river, don't get in a hand with me. -- Dan Nelson
• I played poker with a real 10 last night, however on a slow night she only charges 5!
• "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