Favorite SNG Quotes

byronkincaid · #1 10-17-2004, 09:15 AM

Some of the quotes from this forum that have helped my game.

The bubble is your friend.

Third place money is infinitely better than fourth.

Don't call.

Anyone else got any?

AleoMagus · #2 10-17-2004, 09:56 AM

Not an exact quote, but something along the lines of...

"On the bubble, big stacks tend to get bigger, small stacks tend to get smaller"

Regards
Brad S

Desdia72 · #3 10-17-2004, 10:14 AM

Forgive the whiny bitches, Des . . .

codewarrior · #4 10-17-2004, 10:16 AM

Play for 1st, settle for 3rd.

(I'm settling for third a little much for my taste lately [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]).

Texas Pete · #5 10-17-2004, 12:42 PM

"On the bubble be the aggressor"

also favorite (stupid) quote from an online game, after someone limped in with KK, slow played it, and lost a big pot:

"Man, the players here are crazy. It doesn't pay to play smart in the beginning rounds."

PrayingMantis · #6 10-17-2004, 01:05 PM

My most recent favorite SNG quote wasn't actually found here. It's something by Bruce Lee (who was much more than a film star. Very important modern figure in the field of martial arts), who is paraphrazing on older wisdom:

"When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style."

I think this is extremely relevant to any kind of poker. I'm trying to implement this approach into my SNG play, for a long time. Changing constantly with the game. Not having too rigid plans and strategies, not having a concrete style.

ReDeYES88 · #7 10-17-2004, 02:17 PM

they can't take your chips from you, you can only give them away

NotMitch · #8 10-17-2004, 02:44 PM

From a non 2+2er in a 2+2 Sng (note playing in these has helped my game a ton).

DCJ311: not calling with K2o ? wow
DCJ311: but if a K comes on the flop youre going to wish you had called right?

housenuts · #9 10-17-2004, 04:01 PM

my favourite is when there has been a chip leader for a while and then all of a sudden you take over the chip lead and say
"there's a new sheriff in town"

or when you win a big pot you write
"That's how you do it. That's how you debate" - a memorable quote from the movie Old School

Amid Cent · #10 10-18-2004, 02:37 PM

This is my favorite exchange from an SNG.

Fish1 had raised preflop with AJo, bluffed all-in with nothing and lost to a player who flopped a set with 33.

Fish1: "Nice Catch"
Me: "He didn't catch anything, he had you before the flop".
Fish1: "I meant he wouldn't have been as likely to go all in if didn't flop a set."
Me: "Gee, you think?"
Fish1: FU!