Poker Poker Quotes

#1. I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

Robin Weigert

#2. I DIDN'T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized everything about her. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip. As if I were looking in a mirror.

Karen Joy Fowler

#3. I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.

Nalini Singh

#4. I'm like a poker player, bluffing with whatever cards equal a really shitty hand. I should mention that I have no fucking idea how to play poker. "You

Matthew Norman

#5. The best part about poker is there's no down side.

Samantha Bee

#6. I'm going to be frank, Max ... "
"Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.

Alfred Alcorn

#7. I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're quick with the blinds, you're fine.

Sienna Guillory

#8. Lifes like a game of cards, sometimes you get delt a shit hand, Work with what you got, and never show your weaknesses. Keep a poker face no matter what.

Logan Zane Hessefort

#9. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

Gary Paulsen

#10. With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

Frederick Buechner

#11. Well, you played me, Rabbit. You played me, and it worked, and I'm not the kind of person to make the same mistake twice. Your whole life is a game, but you know what? I already have a life. Poker's nothing to me but a goddamn deck of cards.

Elle Lothlorien

#12. I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.

Joss Whedon

#13. With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.

Jason Gedrick

#14. Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.

Nalini Singh

#15. You can't write music right unless you know how the man that'll play it plays poker.

Duke Ellington

#16. I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John's pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I'm pretty private.

Jared Padalecki

#17. I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.

Shannon Elizabeth

#18. Bums playing strip poker with a robot. Unsettling. Thanks for showing me.

Matthew Loux

#19. If you don't state a clear preference, then your drink is like a bad game of poker or a hasty drug transaction: It is whatever the dealer says it is. Please do try to bear this in mind.

Christopher Hitchens

#20. Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.

Tim Page

#21. One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

Jason Alexander

#22. Maurice laid down all of his cards, then said, Gin. Reginald looked up into Maurice's face and said, I thought we were playing poker and Maurice replied, That's your problem.

Johnny B. Truant

#23. Life may deal you a bad hand or take away a good hand you were already dealt. The way you play the hand is how your life is defined. Just like in poker you can end up winning no matter how bad the cards are you have.

Benjamin Bayani

#24. It doesn't matter what has happened to you, it matters what you do with what has happened to you. Life is like a poker game. You don't get to choose the cards you are dealt, but it's entirely up to you how to play the hand.

Regina Brett

#25. I'm just looking forward to visiting a new, exotic place and killing people," Max said as he slid his folder over. "I don't like to tan as much as my brother does. Anyone play poker? I'm up for a few weeks of cards." "As

Jake Bible

#26. The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.

Sebastian Coe

#27. No, that's too conservative, for I am a God among men and a poker into unpokeable places.

Mira Grant

#28. The first time I bring a girl home, and not only is she the daughter of a famous poker player, but she could easily bankrupt us all in a single hand. For being the family fuckup, I felt like I had finally gained a little respect from my older brothers. And it was all because of Abby.

Jamie McGuire

#29. You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay.

Gillian Flynn

#30. It's nice to have other hobbies, other than golf. I've played football, I play tennis. I enjoy doing things other than golf, and poker is one of them.

Sergio Garcia

#31. The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.

Chris Moneymaker

#32. God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.

David Foster Wallace

#33. Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

David Einhorn

#34. 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

#35. April light was unlike any other. It had a charming, optimistic unreliability like an overbid hand in poker. It gave a promise of spring that it wasn't sure it could keep.

Peter Hoeg

#36. I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

Jason Calacanis

#37. I manage to hold the poker face when she submits to dominance, to the summons, and swans into my arms, pressing her quivering form against mine when she embraces me.

Poppet

#38. I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Chris Moneymaker

#39. Mr. Roth. The Devil is holding your daughter's hand. Now would be a great time to step up and whack the kid with your fire poker

Anne Eliot

#40. Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

Dylan Smith

#41. You get steely nerves playing poker.

Nate Silver

#42. I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.

Robert A. Heinlein

#43. I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

#44. When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

Drew Carey

#45. I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.

L.H. Thomson

#46. You know, whenever somebody comes in, in any situation - whether it's a poker game or a bobsled team or a band - it's gonna change things. And sometimes significantly.

Les Claypool

#47. The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you're playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.

Dean Koontz

#48. I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

Jodi Picoult

#49. Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room - or online casino - is illegal in New York.

Eric Schneiderman

#50. Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

James Altucher

#51. 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

#52. Watch, hell,' Walt said. 'This is strip poker. What kind of homo wants to sit around and watch four guys get naked?

David Sedaris

#53. We're over at Dad's. James just won another hand of poker. I'm starting to worry."
"He's your son, Pidge. Does it surprise you that he's good at cards?

Jamie McGuire

#54. God lets people out to play poker?" This was too much for even me to believe and I was a Vampyre. A myth . . .

Robyn Peterman

#55. Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Chris Moneymaker

#56. But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.

Chris Moneymaker

#57. Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?

Colson Whitehead

#58. Life is like poker. Fair, random and risky.
As your crappy hand can win the game without it being seen, and even change mid-game.
-Alan Hernandez

Alan Hernandez

#59. Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

Chris Moneymaker

#60. The Miccosukee facility in Miami only offers bingo, poker, and video gambling machines. Because it does not have slot machines or table games, the Miccosukee tribe doesn't need an agreement with the state. The Miccosukees only answer to the federal government.

Rick Scott

#61. Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I'll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.

Pippa DaCosta

#62. You're a gambling man, right? Or do you only bet on frivolous things like poker and fucking women?

Amy Andrews

#63. 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

#64. Are ya glad to see me, or is that a roll of poker chips in your pants?

Susannah Scott

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!

Jason Gedrick

#68. Always liquor before you poker

Penelope Ward

#69. Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.

James Patterson

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Jack London

#74. Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.

Eric Schneiderman

#75. 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

#76. Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.

Laura Prepon

#77. No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

Wilford Brimley

#78. Bein' born is craps," he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. "How we live is poker.

Mary Doria Russell

#79. Joe's blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker.

Charles Dickens

#80. Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

James Altucher

#81. Abs? What are you, a workout video?" he sneered.
"Pigeon?" I said with the same amount of disdain. "An annoying bird that craps all over the sidewalk?"
"You like Pigeon," he said defensively. "It's a dove, an attractive girl, a winning card in poker, take your pick. You're my Pigeon.

Jamie McGuire

#82. Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

Cheryl Hines

#83. It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance.

Jonah Hill

#84. Jake. From Philadelphia." Then he shook everybody's hand, like he was joining a poker game. Another Jacob. Michael turned to his brother whose eyes

Alice McDermott

#85. It was a test. That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call. "Party

Mark Lawrence

#86. I like it because when people use a lot of poker lingo, it usually means they've been playing the game for a while. Which is why I immediately avoid those people.

Elle Lothlorien

#87. The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

Chris Moneymaker

#88. Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Jackie Robinson

#89. Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."
~Doyle Brunson

Kiara Delaney

#90. If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Vannevar Bush

#91. As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

Ross Macdonald

#92. Anyway, I'm sure the guy lives a million miles away."
"Or he could live right in your backyard. You never know."
I nodded, keeping a poker face, even though the idea of Sir Leo living in my backyard was extremely appealing.

Mari Mancusi

#93. My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

Emanuel Steward

#94. I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table.

Tori Amos

#95. We stared out at the city that hummed and glittered like a computer chip deep in some unknowable machine, holding its secret like a poker hand

Janet Fitch

#96. Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.

Tim Page

#97. I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

Kenneth Langone

#98. Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this.

Alistair Cross

#99. I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face' ... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep' ... Oh!

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#100. I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

Antonio Banderas