Famous Poker Quotes

[85champ07]

"One of the many reason I love no-limit Texas Hold ’Em is I find the balance between luck, skill, and bluffing a useful metaphor for life." - John Buffalo Mailer

 

[85champ07]

"Your chips are like soldiers. You send them into battle to capture things---in this case, money. Be proud of your army. Lead it wisely." - Eileen Sutton

 

[userX]

Poker is 100% skill and 50% luck.
Phil Hellmuth

 

[CaioRJ]

"The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play."
Negreanu

 

[85champ07]

"‘I only got five cards.’ ‘How many do you want?’ I says. ‘Oh,’ he says, ‘if that's all I get I'll try to make 'em do.’" - Ring Lardner

 

[85champ07]

"Folding your small blind should become second nature to you. I believe that most people lose even more money in the small blind than they do in the big blind." - Rolf Slotboom

 

[85champ07]

"I learned two things. . . The art of the bluff . . . and the luck of the draw." - William Diehl

 

[85champ07]

"When in the blinds, it is important to realize that your opponents will almost always assume you hold nothing." - Rolf Slotboom

 

[85champ07]

"Gamblers think they have magic painted on them when they pick a perfecta out of the air or draw successfully to an inside straight." - James Lee Burke

 

[85champ07]

"ometimes, it’s the hands you don’t play that win you the title. We remember the hero calls. What about the hero folds?" - Maria Konnikova

 

[ManOfSky]

“If there weren’t luck involved, I would win every time.” – Phil Hellmuth


It’s funny, arrogant, and somehow still true 😄

 

[85champ07]

"I have looked through poker material which featured equations of such mind-boggling complexity that I have seriously wondered if the Apollo moon landings relied on more straightforward mathematics." - Byron Jacobs

 

[R.Melnyk77]

Nice quote, one of my favorites:
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well. - Jack London

 

[85champ07]

"[P]oker is a much more difficult game than most people realize. . . . t can be more complex than bridge or backgammon." - David Sklansky

 

[Lolek123123123]

Of course I lied Phil, it’s Poker!
-Tony G

 

[85champ07]

"To a far greater extent than in other sports, [poker players] depend on the long run for their skill to manifest itself. But damn, it takes really long to come." - The Economic Times (india)

 

[85champ07]

"If you are an excellent player, people are going to draw out on you a lot more than you’re going to draw out on them, because they’re simply going to have the worst hand against you a lot more." - Bobby Baldwin

 

[85champ07]

I won my houseboat on a broken flush, four pink ones up and a stranger down." - John D. MacDonald

 

[sntiesot87]

"I don't think I can fold this" - anyone about to suffer a cooler

 

[85champ07]

"Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world the lucky person passes for a genius." - Euripedes

 

[machinm19]

Everything conveys information at the poker table, you can’t be all loosey goosey eating a sandwich 😂 Dnegs

 

[85champ07]

"‘There’s a certain spot, between too drunk and not drunk enough, where I’m a hell of a card player.’" - Joe Abercrombie

 

[85champ07]

"Poker players, it turns out, command one of the best-stocked pharmacies you’re likely to find for most every occasion." - Maria Konnikova

 

[TeUnit]

"If you are an excellent player, people are going to draw out on you a lot more than you’re going to draw out on them, because they’re simply going to have the worst hand against you a lot more." - Bobby Baldwin

I really like this quote, I had a chance to meet Bobby many years ago when he was CFO at Mirage and he was really amazing to talk to.

 

[85champ07]

"The good thing about poker is there’s enough luck that you never have to admit it’s your fault you lost." - Ike Haxton