Top 100 Quotes About Poker
#1. Anybody who likes to play poker, if you want to find a good poker game, you're going to go play. It's not anything where I'm betting the house, like $100,000. You go, kick back, have fun, talk to some of the fans, enjoy it.
Jonathan Vilma
#2. The world had been stirred by a hot poker, and sparks of crazy were flying.
Laini Taylor
#3. One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.
Jason Alexander
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. He did not do the things our schoolmates' fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the livingroom and read.
Harper Lee
#7. Bums playing strip poker with a robot. Unsettling. Thanks for showing me.
Matthew Loux
#8. After one and a half cocktails, finding the appropriate response is a bit of a challenge. I finally say, 'Thank you for inviting me,' and leave the less desirable 'Want to play strip poker?' in the unscrupulous part of my brain where it belongs.
Elle Lothlorien
#9. Do you play cards?"
Her lips tingled from the light kiss, "In theory. Why? Do you have a hankering for Old Maid?" She teased, flashing him a smile.
He placed his glass down and reached for an intricate metal crafted box. "Not even close. How about a little strip poker?
Beth Mikell
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. You can't write music right unless you know how the man that'll play it plays poker.
Duke Ellington
#13. If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Newman
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. I don't like uncertainty. I don't play poker. I don't like bluffing.
Joss Whedon
#18. When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
Peter Thiel
#19. She's a poker player's wet dream. Sorry, sweetheart, you can't bluff for anything.
Katherine McIntyre
#20. 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
#21. The two men maintain firm eye contact. A poker game, both of them bluffing. Or pretending to.
Chris Pavone
#22. Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
Penn Jillette
#23. Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can't teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying paintings.
Gregory Cochran
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
Mary Hunter Austin
#28. Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible.
Terry Teachout
#29. 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
#30. I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.
Al Alvarez
#31. I'm going to be frank, Max ... "
"Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.
Alfred Alcorn
#33. Catholicism ... tries to grab all the poker chips on the table, kick everybody out of the game, and then pretend they were never there until the game was effectively over. It's just a ridiculous, obvious revisionist history.
Robert M. Price
#34. You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.
Jon Favreau
#35. The best part about poker is there's no down side.
Samantha Bee
#36. The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.
Jason Gedrick
#37. 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
#38. poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker
Lewis Carroll
#39. I might not be Silent any longer, but I still have the perfect poker face.
Nalini Singh
#41. I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.
Richard Roeper
#42. 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
#43. Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
Simon Baker
#44. 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
#45. Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
Edward Norton
#46. The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?
A.B. Shepherd
#47. You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
Richard Roeper
#48. The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
Kate Hudson
#49. I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
Jack Ma
#50. It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker." If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
Holly Black
#51. Caldwell doesn't answer. She's unfolded her arms for the first time and she's taking a furtive, fearful look at her injuries, like a poker player lifting the corners of his cards to see what Lady Luck has sent along. But
M.R. Carey
#52. I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.
Ira Glass
#53. Sure I care about it, just not enough to play cards with my integrity as a poker chip.
Michael D. O'Brien
#54. The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls.
Nora Roberts
#55. Okay then, I suppose you get a pass on poker intimidation for the glasses, little brother. But everyone else is wearing them at the tables too, and they're all just sitting there, looking all serious, like they're birthing the Grand Theory of Everything.
Elle Lothlorien
#56. Morals are an acquirement, like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis, no man is born with them.
Mark Twain
#57. Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
James Altucher
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#62. What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
David Mitchell
#63. No, that's too conservative, for I am a God among men and a poker into unpokeable places.
Mira Grant
#64. The Power Poker lottery would be won by a person having no ties to any Chicago street gangs or terrorists - Joe Normal.
Ridley Pearson
#65. 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
#66. Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
James Woods
#67. 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
#68. See not the face..
but only the eyes,
of the poker face.
Toba Beta
#69. I guess you don't get to watch much TV in Irkalla."
He propped his head on one scaly bicep and turned to look at me. "Nah. We stayed busy torturing the souls of the damned and playing hide the hot poker. You know, the usual.
Jaye Wells
#70. I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
Al Alvarez
#71. I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.
Jennifer Tilly
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.
Natalie Dormer
#75. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip.
Karen Joy Fowler
#76. 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
#77. a poker-rectumed pillar of the establishment [Marcus Corvinus on a Roman Senator]
David Wishart
#78. 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
#79. Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.
Jason Alexander
#80. 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
#81. I thought I was going to sweat five years before I'd feel like this."
"I wanted it as much as you did. I've just got a hell of a poker face" I smiled, pressing my lips against his.
Jamie McGuire
#82. 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
#83. Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.
Ben Yagoda
#84. If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.
Chris Moneymaker
#85. 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
#86. I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.
Jerry Buss
#87. Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.
Chris Moneymaker
#88. When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.
Arthur W. Pink
#89. 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
#90. I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.
Cheryl Hines
#91. I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright
#92. When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
Drew Carey
#93. She had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.
Jojo Moyes
#94. poker hand which includes a king, queen and jack, all three face cards that appear to be 'looking at you'.
Anupama Chopra
#95. I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.
L.H. Thomson
#96. 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
#97. You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#98. 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
#99. At my first tournament, about four years ago, I got four twos. Now I have a poker problem. I do win every so often, so that's what keeps me going.
Cheryl Hines
#100. I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it.
Charles Dickens
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