Quotes About Poker

#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

#19. Always liquor before you poker

Penelope Ward

#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. Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

Al Alvarez

#40. ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

Drew Curtis

#41. 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

#42. 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

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

Chris Moneymaker

#44. 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

#45. I kept my poker face on and listened to him with an air of interest and respect (I thought of what it says in one of Rand's novels, how the winner can afford to be generous).

Harvey Pekar

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

Colson Whitehead

#47. My biggest problem in live games is that I love the game so much and I don't think I ever met a poker player I didn't fundamentally like - even if they're screaming and they're acting like real jerks.

James Woods

#48. Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#49. The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.

Dylan Smith

#50. Screenwriting is like poker; in the end, you have to go all in.

A.D. Posey

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#56. A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

Francine Rivers

#57. To make love last, you've got to treat it like the ultimate poker hand; you've got to go all in.

Max Hawthorne

#58. Telekinetic Poker Players
You can tell telekinetic poker-players are bluffing ~
they raise you.

Beryl Dov

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

David Sedaris

#60. You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.

Rick Riordan

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

Susannah Scott

#62. Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.

Anonymous

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. She puts on her poker face; I don't have any extra faces to put on, just the normal Craig face.

Ned Vizzini

#66. I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.

Gena Rowlands

#67. I haven't done 'Celebrity Poker Showdown,' and I would love them to have me, but I think I'm not a big enough celebrity yet to get on there.

Robin Weigert

#68. 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

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

Kenneth Langone

#70. 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

#71. For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

Chris Moneymaker

#72. 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

#73. TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.

Jason Calacanis

#74. 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

#75. The teeth must have escaped while you murdered the rest of it," said Bramble, cough-laughing into her napkin. "Ha ha ha! You know, sometimes I think Clover is harboring some deep, dark shocking secret. Fire poker! Ba-hahahahaaa!

Heather Dixon

#76. Drama is played at the pace of chess ... or billiards ... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Mark Waters

#77. Hiking is sort of like strip poker: by the end, all the participants are hot, sweaty, and nearly naked, and the winner is the person who wore the most layers.

Winona Dimeo-Ediger

#78. Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse trouble.

Dean Koontz

#79. 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

#80. I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

Jeannette Walls

#81. 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

#82. Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' He then handed him his money back, pushed him gently from the room, and so made a devoted slave of Tom Simson.

Bret Harte

#83. 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

#84. I can win anytime. Kevin's going to go back to Burbank and tell everybody in his cubicle how he won at the Golden Nugget. Sometimes the pot isn't the money.

Heidi Cullinan

#85. He looked like he could tie a knot in a fire poker, eat it, and crap it out straight.

Megan Abbott

#86. Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

Jeannette Walls

#87. What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

Wilford Brimley

#88. A girl's gotta have her Mystery.
You can hardly win at poker if your cards lay bare on the table for all to see...
One need be Strategic...

Daleen Van Tonder

#89. As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money.

Matt Damon

#90. I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

Francine Pascal

#91. 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

#92. I think," Nick snarled, "that the stupid bastard isn't smart enough to win a poker hand with a deck of marked cards.

Judith McNaught

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

Laura Prepon

#94. 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

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

Chris Moneymaker

#96. 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

#97. The captain glared at him. The sergeant put on the poker face that has been handed down from NCO to NCO ever since one protoamphibian told another, lower-ranking protoamphibian to muster a squad of newts and Take That Beach.

Terry Pratchett

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. 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