Top 42 Best Poker Sayings
#1. Behind me, Ingrid made a sort of muffled snorting sound. I can only assume she was choking on a breath mint. I shot her a look, hoping she hadn't heard anything, and saw she was wearing a poker face, which could only mean she'd heard everything.
Daniel O'Malley
#2. If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Warren Buffett
#3. Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both.
Allan Dare Pearce
#4. Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."
~Doyle Brunson
Kiara Delaney
#5. I thought of an old poker players' expression: If you look around the table and can't spot the sucker, the sucker is you.
Barry Eisler
#6. I just had this image of you brandishing the hot fire poker at Brad, and saying: 'Hello, my name is Carmen Winters. You killed my daughter. Prepare to die.'" A
Loretta Lost
#7. Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.
Eric Schneiderman
#8. Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
#9. It seems to me that dealing with little boys is a lot like playing poker. You need to know when to hold them, when to fold them, and when to walk away. But the most important thing you need to know is, oral contraceptives are only 97 percent effective.
Paula Wall
#10. In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More.
Colson Whitehead
#11. There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
David Einhorn
#12. I'd spent five minutes looking at Twitter once and felt I'd wandered into a poker game where everyone immediately displayed their hands against the cool green of the felt.
Jeff Abbott
#13. I hit the dance floor, wincing a little bit as the DJ looped feedback through the throbbing of a useless song about someone playing poker with his face or something.
Lili St. Crow
#14. Why the fuck do you think I'm so tired?" I say to her.
"Because you play too much online poker?" she says.
Sarah Noffke
#15. I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.
Jason Gedrick
#16. If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.
Jim Parrack
#17. Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.
James Patterson
#18. Teens had the world's best built-in poker face: a hormone-fueled, constant glare of bored contempt.
Barry Lyga
#20. You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!
Jason Gedrick
#21. No. I do believe in them. I just think they're absentee landlords. Right now, they're probably hanging out somewhere in Las Vegas, screwing showgirls and cheating at poker.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#22. I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.
Kurt Vonnegut
#23. Must be the hair then. And the name change. And your new piss-poor attitude. Because every once in a while, I look at you and I don't see a Baby Doll anymore. I just see Alice Faye Dahl, Poker Champion Badass. With obvious, heavy influences from Ronald McDonald, of course.
Elle Lothlorien
#24. Mum," said Christopher. "It's a demon. I don't think a poker will hurt it."
"It will where I'm going to put it," said Mrs. Mayer.
John Connolly
#25. Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.
Clint Eastwood
#26. What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: One hand, one million dollars, no tears.
Michael Lewis
#27. I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.
Joshua Bell
#28. Actors, we like our little cups of cappuccino and our personal umbrella-holders. Poker players, they've gotta be a little bit tougher.
Tom Everett Scott
#29. I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
James Woods
#30. I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#31. Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.
Gillian Flynn
#32. The children refused to disbelieve in the monsters because, frankly, they knew damn well the things were there. But she'd found that they could, very firmly, also believe in the poker.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Marty used to tell her she had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across her features like reflections on a still pond.
Jojo Moyes
#34. Despite all her efforts to not be one of those historical romance heroines, walking into the marble foyer and seeing the slick hardwood floors beyond, the glittering chandeliers and sconces, she felt like one.
She felt small and alone. And like maybe her dad lost her in a poker game.
Molly O'Keefe
#35. I'm not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga's "Poker Face"]
David Mitchell
#36. Death by drowning, death by snakebite ... death by memory loss, death by claymore ... death by paper cuts, death by whoreknife, death by poker game ... death by authority, death by isolation, death by genocide, death by Kennedy ... death by signature, death by silence ... death by performance
Colum McCann
#37. Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.
Doyle Brunson
#38. You're a gambling man, right? Or do you only bet on frivolous things like poker and fucking women?
Amy Andrews
#39. Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.
Charlie Ergen
#40. The best part about poker is there's no down side.
Samantha Bee
#41. What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
Drew Houston
#42. Whenever somebody folds, say, 'Good laydown.' It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you had the best hand even if you were bluffing. It's an odd form of flattery that seems to work at the poker table.
Cheryl Hines
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