Favorite Poker Quotes

[Whaevoz]

"I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside." -- Colson Whitehead

 

[Whaevoz]

"When you are big-stacked, playing your stack becomes more important than playing your cards." -- Neil Timothy

 

[Whaevoz]

"Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game." -- Doyle Brunson

 

[Whaevoz]

"Belief in luck is a great mystical rationalization for the refusal to think." -- Frank R. Wallace

 

[Whaevoz]

"I'm really good at keeping a poker face because when I was growing up my dad always told me 'don't let anybody see you weak." -- Kelly Oubre, Jr.

 

[Whaevoz]

"Obsessing about statistics won't make you a better poker player. In fact, you'll end up wasting too much valuable time on that stuff when you should be concentrating on crucial issues, like getting a read on your opponents and studying the psychological aspects of the game." -- Daniel Negreanu

 

[Whaevoz]

"Seat selection is critical when playing against a maniac." -- Sheree Bykofsky

 

[Whaevoz]

"Never underestimate the importance of preparation for any single poker session or tournament." -- Daniel Negreanu

 

[Liedust]

Never force luck!

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker is the only game for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's hand is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork?" -- W. Somerset Maugham

 

[Whaevoz]

“Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life, but it is also merely a game in which money is simply the means of keeping score.” -- Anthony Holden

 

[kodiakken]

Winning a large poker tournament is like dodging bullets while dancing between raindrops. In a minefield....at night.

Kodiakken

 

[Whaevoz]

“Bad beats will, from time to time, still rob you like a crack addict with an empty pipe.” -- Rick Dacey

 

[IADaveMark]

"Yeah, but I'm an idiot with a stack. You don't have a stack!" -- Christian Dragomir to Phil Hellmuth, wsop 2008

 

[Whaevoz]

"Good No-Limit players bluff four or five times as often as good players in Limit games." -- Doyle Brunson

 

[AzdajaD]

 

[Whaevoz]

"The winner of a heads-up pot will generally be the player who plays better in marginal situations." -- Jennifer Harman

 

[xOneCoolHandx]

"People think mastering the skill is the hard part, but they're wrong....The trick to poker is mastering the luck"

just wondering if anyone else has some good quotes...
just leave me a messages if ya will....telling me how u like or not like my quote.

Fav poker quote that is not really directly a poker quote or useful: "Maybe poker just isn't your game Ike, I know, let's have a spelling contest." -- Doc Holiday in Tombstone (for the one or two of you who don't know)

 

[skaterick]

'strength in numbers is the delight of the timid. the valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone." gandhi

 

[Whaevoz]

“Poker is not simply a game of odds, moves and calculations. It is a game of controlled and exploited emotions including greed, fear, over-confidence and anger.” -- Steven Lubet

 

[Whaevoz]

"You can’t bluff someone who’s not paying attention." -- David Mamet

 

[Whaevoz]

"If you can’t fold a winner, you can’t be a winner." -- Angel Largay

 

[Whaevoz]

“Besides lovemaking and singing in the shower, there aren’t many human activities where there is a greater difference between a person’s self-delusional ability and their actual ability than in poker.” -- Steve Badger

 

[Whaevoz]

"Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.” -- Ambrose Bierce

 

[Whaevoz]

"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough." -- Mark Twain