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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, Lou Krieger Online
There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips.
WILLIAM J. FLORENCE, The Gentleman's Handbook on Poker
Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.
Poker is a fighting game, a game in which each player tries to get the better of every other player and does so by fair means or foul so long as he obeys the rules of the game. He may bluff or lie about his own strength, the object of the game being either to frighten the other players into believing that he has greater strength or else to prove it.
KARL MENNINGER, Love Against Hate
In poker, good players win and poor players lose.
LOU KRIEGER, More Hold'em Excellence
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
DAVID MAMET, Writing in Restaurants
As batting practice is not baseball, reading about poker, or playing against computerized opponents -- while undeniably helpful -- is not the same as playing for real money, against live opponents, in public games.
LOU KRIEGER, Hold'em Excellence
The seductive game of poker is one that I do not understand. I do not care to understand it, because it cannot be played without the putting up of a good deal of the coin of the realm, and although I have nothing to say against betting, my own theory of conduct in the matter is this, that I want no man's money which I do not earn, and I do not want any man to get my money unless he earns it.
ROBERT BARR, "The Society for the Reformation of Poker Players"
Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.
LOU KRIEGER, More Hold'em Excellence
The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing bad cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.
KATY LEDERER, A Girlhood Among Gamblers
In poker, as in business, the secret is in knowing how to manage risk and capitalize on opportunity.
LOU KRIEGER, More Hold'em Excellence
The other day I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
STEVEN WRIGHT, stand-up routine
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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