10 Random Poker Quotes

• For all you probability freaks, remember to consider the probability that an opponent is lying. Generally, liars dig holes and keep on lying, at least in the short run, as they try to climb out. Adjust your math prowess accordingly. Tells are paramount, as much or more as your calculating brain is. Poker becomes super-multi-variable when the psychological realm is joined with that already beautiful world of card probabilities. -- a mathematician
• "Percentage players die broke too, Burt." -Fast Eddie Felson "The Hustler"
• 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"
• A great poker player knows when he is playing poorly.
• I have found that when my reasoning for making a call amounts to, "Aww, fuck it." it is usually the wrong move.
• The problem with slowplaying the nuts is that there might be somebody else slowplaying a hand they only think is the nuts. -Gary Carson
• I'd rather be good than lucky, I'd rather be lucky than lose...
• "You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine." (Phil Ivey, to Howard Lederer)
• If it wasn't for luck, I'd win every hand.
• I cried because I had no draw, until I met a man with no pair.