10 Random Poker Quotes

• "I want him to think that I am pondering a call, but all I'm really thinkin about it Vegas and the fuckin' Mirage." - Mike McDermott (Rounders, 1998)
• 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
• "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]
• Concentrate. Don't do anything stupid. Catch some cards. ----Mrs. Cloutier, as TJ heads out to another tournament
• The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing. --Nick the Greek
• With all the new poker players I cant play holdem with a pair of gloves
• When you're drawing dead, you always get there.
• Nixon financed his first political campaign with money he won playing poker against his fellow naval officers.
• 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"
• I have found that when my reasoning for making a call amounts to, "Aww, fuck it." it is usually the wrong move.