Quotes on poker
Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play.
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Steve Lipscomb Quotes
Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens.
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John Luckacs Quotes
Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.
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Walter Matthau Quotes
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.
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David Shoup Quotes
In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket.
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Beausourire Quotes
The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.
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Author Unknown Quotes
There's opportunity in poker... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, "Shuffle up and deal."
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Lou Krieger Quotes
Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking.
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Nick Dandalos Quotes
I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege.
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Jack Binion Quotes
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.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
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Charles Lamb Quotes
Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.
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Lou Krieger Quotes
Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
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Seven Wright Quotes
Poker is a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature.
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David A Daniel Quotes
Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.
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VP Pappy Quotes