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The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.
--Anthony Holden
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Poker Quote #13
Honey! Honey! I was supposed to go broke on that hand, honey, except they forgot one thing: I can dodge bullets, baby.
--Phil Helmuth
--Phil Helmuth
Poker Quote #12
Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing!
--Doyle Brunson
--Doyle Brunson
Poker Quote #11
Hold’Em - like life itself has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.
--Lou Krieger
--Lou Krieger
Poker Quote #10
If you re-raise a raiser and he doesn't raise you back, you know he has kicker problems.
--Crandall Addington
--Crandall Addington
Poker Quote #8
You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.
--Bobby Baldwon
--Bobby Baldwon
Poker Quote #6
Poker is generally reckoned to be America's second most popular after-dark activity. Sex is good, they say, but poker lasts longer.
--Alfred Alvarez
--Alfred Alvarez
Poker Quote #5
Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life – but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score.
--Anthony Holden
--Anthony Holden
Poker Quote #4
Omaha is a game that was invented by a Sadist and is played by Masochists.
--Shane Smith
--Shane Smith
Poker Quote #21
You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone.
--Lou Krieger
--Lou Krieger
Poker Quote #20
The most difficult aspects of playing poker professionally are coping emotionally with the losses and coping with the recurring idea that you're not doing anything worthwhile.
--Mike Caro
--Mike Caro
Poker Quote #18
When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.
--David Sklansky
--David Sklansky
Poker Quote #19
The strong point in poker is never to loose your temper, either with those you are playing with or, more particularly, with the cards.
--William J. Florence
--William J. Florence
Poker Quote #16
It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
--Alfred Alvarez
--Alfred Alvarez
Poker Quote #15
It's hard work. Don’t let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money, and leave you out back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside.
--Stu Ungar
--Stu Ungar
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