10 Random Poker Quotes

• The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing. --Nick the Greek
• I have found that when my reasoning for making a call amounts to, "Aww, fuck it." it is usually the wrong move.
• Always play hands where both hole cards are different suits. It doubles the possibility of hitting a flush. Anon.
• "Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker." - Mike McDermott (Rounders, 1998)
• "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)
• "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
• "I thought it was jack's" - Phil Helmuth Jr. WSOP vs. Jason Lester
• Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear.
• ''when i bet i either have nuts or balls.''FRAN PINCHOT
• When I play badly, I lose fast. When I play well, I lose slowly. In a tournament, the net result is the same: I LOSE! - RH 11-6-05