Posted Mon Feb 02, 2004 11:01 am GMT by racquet000
Im looking for some of the best quotes that are realy true to poker. My friend said something to me once but i had forgot, He wasnt putting it to poker but i thought it fit poker so much. I dont know what it was specificly if anybody knows that would be cool but it was something like,
Choice is an illiusion created by those with power and those without.
Something to that effect im missing something i know.
But what are soem realy good quotes that fit poker.
Aaron,
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Posted Mon Feb 02, 2004 1:49 pm GMT by Leo
"if you can't spot the sucker at the table within the first halfhour, you are the sucker."
"that's poker..."
i like this quote, it's my attitude towards life. not "that's poker" but "that's life" it's like, what the hell it'll work out nad it goes for poker too, what the hell, he won that pot but it'll work out i'll get him back later  .
yeah, i'm writing out of my ass here.
Posted Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:03 pm GMT by racquet000
Yeah "Thats poker" is a biggie But i think you ment Spot not Stop....lol
Posted Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:38 pm GMT by Sundance
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Posted Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:10 pm GMT by Geno
See below 
Posted Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:30 pm GMT by saper88aa
Don't need to respond really... as Leo stoel mine 
Posted Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:07 pm GMT by myonker
from animal house:
flounder: "what are you guys doing?......playing cards?"
Posted Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:56 pm GMT by mindgame
Here's my favorite...from a classic poker text by Moorehead:
There was a fella lost two farms drawing to inside straights.
Never learned 'til he lost the third farm after he made one.
My brother-in-law Mike, who taught me enough poker that he won't invite me to his games anymore (well he DID warn me):
It's lucky to be born smart...but smarter to be born lucky!
or his other one, for those times you've got someone raising into your monster hand and you start inventing ways you can lose with it:
Why go broke on a bad hand?
Posted Mon Feb 02, 2004 9:04 pm GMT by golddog
O.k., it's not just for poker per se, but it's one I made up that I like:
What most people think of as luck is a matter of preparedness meeting skill.
Posted Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:48 am GMT by Leo
| saper88aa wrote: | | Don't need to respond really... as Leo stoel mine |
and you stole it from rounders  and yes, it's spot and not stop typo, but i fixed it.
Posted Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:29 am GMT by JimTheBullet
See below. I came up with it myself in an online game once. Don't know if anybody more famous has ever said something similar. As far as I know it is original to me, though people must have come up with something similar before I did. It has become my standard response to anybody asking me what I had in a hand where they folded to my bet (I hardly ever show).
Posted Tue Feb 03, 2004 7:15 pm GMT by Scyman
THis is what I say to everyone who calls me lucky...
"Luck is just preperation meeting oppertunity"
Posted Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:02 pm GMT by Peerless
| racquet000 wrote: |
Choice is an illiusion created by those with power and those without.
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FYI, That's not a poker quote thats from Matrix: Reloaded. My quote's in my sig, but its already been used.
Posted Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:18 pm GMT by highscty
I like this one: " If I win another pot I'll be broke!"
It based on hi/lo split games when someone has the same low or hi as you and you get 1/4 of the pot
Posted Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:28 pm GMT by racquet000
| Peerless wrote: | | racquet000 wrote: |
Choice is an illiusion created by those with power and those without.
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FYI, That's not a poker quote thats from Matrix: Reloaded. My quote's in my sig, but its already been used. |
I know it wasnt a poker quote, but it could be related to it in terms. But thanks for telling me where it came from now i can figure out the whole quote.
aaron,
Posted Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:42 pm GMT by Earthshine
I stole these from a friend of mine. I hope he doesn't read this!
First, when someone is complaining about how you play, or about a bad beat... For example, recently I was in an 18 player sit&go. It was down to 4 of us and I was in real bad shape. I was trying to wait for a good hand to go all-in. Anyway, I was down to 440 in chips, with blinds of 100/200. I got K8 suited and it was the best thing I'd seen in a while, so I go all-in, get two callers. I win the hand with a pair of K's to stay alive. Now I have like 1400 in chips, I get AK, go all-in and win. next hand AK, go all-in and win.. Now i'm in 2nd place and everyone is complaining like crazy because they said I should have been out a few hands ago.. My responce was the following:
"Hey, a chip and a chair is all you need..."
I love that saying.. I went on to win that sit&go and it really felt good since they were complaining so much.
The second one is when you are down to almost nothing in a tourney, like say 100-200 in TC.. You simply say:
"I'm down to felt"
Of course, when you go out you are really down to felt!! Those are two of my favorite.
Posted Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:36 pm GMT by Hank
Here is one I heard before.
"It's bad luck to be superstitious."
I beleave it.
-Hank
Posted Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:06 pm GMT by bfd21
Well, now, I bring all sorts of plusses to the table. I hardly ever bluff and I never ever cheat.
Posted Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:55 pm GMT by Leo
that's from maverick, right?
Posted Thu Feb 05, 2004 5:31 pm GMT by bfd21
yep, i forgot to mention that
Posted Sat Feb 28, 2004 2:51 pm GMT by djbaseball24
when down to a short stack I always say Im down to the nitty gritty,and it seem as if I win the next couple of pots after saying that.
Posted Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:15 am GMT by JohnnyCache
I'm a big fan of:
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
John Paul Jones, Letter, November 16, 1778
and:
"Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade
And yet the Menace of the Years
Finds and shall find me unafraid"
--William Earnest Henly, Invictus
And, of course,
"Morituri Te Salutant"
--Slogan yelled by gladiators in Roman arena just before they caused a riot.
Posted Sun Feb 29, 2004 11:12 am GMT by nicthestick
"I don't want to buy anything, sell anything, or process anything. I don't want to buy anything sold or processed, sell anything bought or processed, or process anything sold bought.... or processed, as a carrer. I cant figure it all out tonight sir, I just want to hang with your daughter."
Lloyd Dobler
Posted Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:25 pm GMT by PuckJunkieNY
These are some quotes I've collected from the internet and books over the past several months. Some are related directly to poker, the others are related to gambling in general. Enjoy....
There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush." It is enough to make one ashamed of one's species.
- quoted in A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson
" Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."
-Charles Lamb, "Essays of Elia" (1832)
" Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains."
-Mike Caro
" Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your poker hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you in poker."
-Somerset Maugham from Cosmopolitans
" Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other poker 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 poker, as in life."
-Anthony Holden (from Big Deal)
" The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius."
-Big Julie
" Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money."
-Unknown Loser's Prayer
" Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."
-Walter Matthau
" It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
-Gore Vidal
" I must complain the poker cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."
Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (1728)
"When your opponent is holding all the aces, there's only one thing to do. Kick over the table."
--Moive: Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964)
'$20,000, you couldn't win that in a poker game!' "Not unless I was dealing."
-Moive: Dakota
"A deck of cards is like a woman - usually when you pick one up, you wish you hadn't."
-MovIe: Flame of the Barbary Coast
"In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there."
- An anonymous casino boss
"Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself."
- Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Dandalos
"You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...to hold front position in this rat-race you've got to believe you're lucky."
- Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire
"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet." - Grantland Rice
"Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures."
- Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. "She got to go to heaven four days early."
- President Bill Clinton
"Stop cheating!" the dealer told the card player. "I'm not!" claimed the player. "You must be," said the dealer. "That is not the hand that I dealt you."
"Suckers have no business with money anyway."
- Canada Bill Jones
"Gambling is a principle inherent in nature."
- Edmund Burke, House of Commons speech (1780)
"He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."
- Mark Twain
"I have always wondered if the results of the Versailles Conferences would have been different if Woodrow Wilson had been a poker player."
- Clyde Brion Davis
In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
- Proverb
"Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face."
- VP Pappy
"It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees."
- Mario Puzo
"I've learned the lesson that the worst thing that can happen to a gambler is to let his recent losses or wins knock him off keel emotionally."
- Andrew Beyer
"The majority of casino players leave to much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play."
- Henry Tamburin
"A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned."
- Paul Newman, The Color of Money
"Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (1867)
"No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner."
- Lord Dewar
"Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom."
- VP Pappy (A crusty old sage that still roams the Green Felt Jungles in Detroit)
"The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be."
- Mark Pilarski
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
- American Proverb
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck."
- Joseph Conrad
"I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
- Jean Cocteau
"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."
- Amarillo Slim
Posted Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:38 am GMT by golddog
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place"
--Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
Posted Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:31 pm GMT by Felting
"Sorry, I didn't here you, I was too busy stacking your chips."
Posted Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:39 pm GMT by Ensano
my favorite poker quote...
when Lp raises in a tourney and i reraise AI back with my T8 or other likely crap...
get called by AK and actually win the hand..
Lp whines... and all i have to say...
"hey, 40% of the time... it works every time.."
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