Poker Quotes

Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.

m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.

The competition has improved tremendously.

In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do.

If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

Not having the online game has made it more difficult.

There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Poker is meant to be enjoyed.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless.

I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

God does not play dice with the universe;

He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant 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.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker.

And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue.

Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.