Favorite Poker Quotes

[Swedebubba]

Haven't seen one of these posts in awhile (maybe I'm blind). But thought I'd start one. Can be from movie or otherwise.

Mine is from the Cincinnati Kid - "I don't need marked cards to beat you buddy" --Cincinnati Kid

[Trix]

If you want to be successful in business, surround yourself
with smarter people. If you want to be successful in poker, surround
yourself with idiots.

-Abdul Jalib (I think)


Little annoys me more than when people are condescending and wrong. If you are going to be rude, at least be right.

-Ed Miller

[goofball]

one poker one non-poker

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.
-Lou Krieger

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[timprov]

"Better yet, every time you would stop to think, just call instead. It's better than thinking."

--David Sklansky

[kitaristi0]

"Giving Phil Ivey more chips is like giving Charles Manson the keys to your house." - Norman Chad

"It's so quiet in here you can actually here Phil Hellmuth thinking to himself, 'I am the best player at this table'." - Norman Chad

[edtost]

"So after we go bet (hello) raise (hi) 3-bet (I might have something) 4-bet (I know you know I don't have to have much to check-raise and could be restealing) 5-bet (I thought you might think that, but I really do have a pair) we finally get to a point where Mike starts communicating to his opponent that he really can beat top pair. 6-bets - I have top pair or better. 7-bets I have top-pair-top-kicker, eight-eight, or better. 8-bets - I can beat that. call.

Now, the opponents call here means one of two things. a) you've scared me, I have a good hand, but ok, maybe you really do have me beaten. b) screw this small bet stuff, let's get to the expensive streets and continue the conversation."

-mike l.

"repeat after me: nobody ever believes anyone ever has anything, so nobody folds anything ever. "

-mike l.

"After all of Tommy's posts in the past, I wasn't sure what to expect out of his play. The part about him playing the button and usually knowing what his opponents have on the turn without them having a clue what he's got is absolutely correct. Even in our home game, I could never put him on a hand until he called the river. That's when I knew I was beat."

and all the tommyisms

[James282]

"Can you believe these [censored] guys? Sorry we want to talk about something different at a poker table for once. Bunch of [censored] idiots come in here every night saying the same [censored] to eachother. "I thought you had the 8!" "No I thought you had the 8!" "Hahahahaha" "Can you believe he had 79 offsuit?" "No!" And they have the [censored] nerve to make fun of us? Give me a [censored] break. Like they have any [censored] clue what they are talking about."

-bdk3clash

"Good to see that a player like you isn't averse to using the occasional poker cliche!" (after I said, and everybody folds like a cheap suit like a total nerd)

-bdk3clash

"Yellow cards are lucky for the yellow man!"

-many times by sfer

[bdk3clash]

Whoa--did I really say all this? I think I look smarter after going through the James282filter.

[UATrewqaz]

In order to live, you must be willing to die.

~Amir Vahedi

[edtost]

[ QUOTE ]

"Yellow cards are lucky for the yellow man!"

-many times by sfer

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or the alternate version:

"yellow cards, yellow chips, yellow man! i can't lose!"