Famous Poker Quotes

[85champ07]

Share and discuss your favorite quotes and poetic words of poker wisdom here. Recently I have enjoyed the daily quotes from replay poker and it has sparked an old love of poetry. I find many words of poker advice can be interpreted in multiple ways and depending on the situation it speaks to everyone a bit differently.

 

[85champ07]

The one who wagers the most wins. Cards just break ties." - Sammy Farha

This quote is still relative in poker today. A bluff is always harder against tougher/more riskier opponents. Playing for value is also risky due to high variance. Betting too high in order to shake your opponent sometimes has value in it.

 

[Debi]

I like this one:

“When I experience a bad beat, I think of it as an overhead. If you own a business, you have to pay your bills, and I consider a bad beat one of my bills.”
– Jennifer Harman

 

[85champ07]

"[A] great player doesn’t make his money catching someone bluffing. He makes it when he has a top pair and a kicker and figures someone else for a top pair with a smaller kicker." - Johnny Chan

In my experiences hero calls are hard to catch. This can be true inside and outside of poker. Weather you are right or wrong, sometimes having gut instinct on the situation can pay off in the long run.

 

[85champ07]

I like this one:

“When I experience a bad beat, I think of it as an overhead. If you own a business, you have to pay your bills, and I consider a bad beat one of my bills.”
– Jennifer Harman

I really like that one, absolutely true in the sense of poker being a like a business, has ups and downs, and there is always a cost. Love it.

 

[Lena M]

Share and discuss your favorite quotes and poetic words of poker wisdom here. Recently I have enjoyed the daily quotes from replay poker and it has sparked an old love of poetry. I find many words of poker advice can be interpreted in multiple ways and depending on the situation it speaks to everyone a bit differently.

My favourite quote that captures the essence of the game.
“Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.” James Altucher

 

[Igor G]

I have a few favourite quotes. Here are the most interesting ones.

 

[85champ07]

"Poker’s good if you like watching people. Not if you like people because then you won’t like people so much." - Jesse May

I agree and disagree. I can agree that poker is boring to watch others play for a long time, but the the only time I hate the people is when they are constantly a table bully and rude. Happens sometimes I guess

 

[85champ07]

I have a few favourite quotes. Here are the most interesting ones.

These are all very good, and by some of the greats!

 

[85champ07]

"The child, who tries to win a prize at school by diligent mental culture, is a fair example of the honorable cardplayer who tries to win agreed-upon stakes, from associate players, by superior calculation of chances, or superior mental force." - John Blackbridge

While there are many types of poker players, the successful ones are definitely stronger willed and can mentally outpace everyone at the table without prejudice.

 

[black and]

Here are some of my favorite quotes.
“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.” Paul Newman
“The smarter you play, the luckier you’ll be.” Mark Pilarski
“Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art.” Jack Strauss
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.” Paul Newman

 

[85champ07]

"I’m playing an honest game, Inspector. 52 cards to the pack, each and every one of them different. You can check them if you like.’" - Alastair Sim

Perfecting the bluff!

 

[85champ07]

"Instead of forks they felt straights between their fingers. They ate their steaks thinking of royal flushes." - Bertholt Brecht

Day dreaming of poker whilst doing other activities is a true form of a poker pro lifestyle, or as an addict, been there!

 

[Rost]

“Life is too long to play bad cards.”
“When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.”
The only failure for a good player is poor health.

 

[fernandofcp]

"When I sit down to play, I play to win. I've never been satisfied with second place." - Phil Ivey

 

[Mazembe]

Fold to live another day, meaning it's a difficult fold but you have to make it in order to get in better situations

 

[RonanPERNA]

“Most players look for reasons to run. I look for reasons to play.” – Daniel Negreanu

 

[Skot_Gy]

Don't bet more than you afford to lose.

I don't know exactly the source, many have said this... and so true.

 

[85champ07]

"[O]verestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it." - Neal Stephenson

 

[dreamer13]

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned!

 

[Newzooozooo]

“Poker is a lot like sex, everyone thinks they are the best, but most don’t have a clue what they are doing!” - Dutch Boyd

 

[Ruslan L]

This quote is one of my favorites.
You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once. - Amarillo Slim

 

[85champ07]

"If you can’t look at your card one time and remember it for the few minutes it takes to play a hand of poker, then you have no business at the table." - Milton T. Burton

 

[85champ07]

"Hope is not a strategy." - Rick Page

But as my gf just stated, hope is essential.

 

[85champ07]

"A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations." - I Ching