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Onlinepokercash.info|Poker Quotes and Sayings Are you looking for inspirational sayings, motivational quotes, great words and witty proverbs dealing with poker, games of luck and gambling or cool things you could say to the dealer at your next casino visit or maybe just a way to get a better handle on the game of poker by looking at what famous (and some not so famous) poker players have said about the game? At the very least you can impress your buddies at the next poker game, when you tell them some of these famous quotes and sayings about poker. 

"Poker is a lot like sex, everone thinks they are the best, but most don't have a clue what they are doing!" - Quote by Dutch Boyd

"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?"
"All your life, son." - Quote by Michael Pertwee

"All you need is a chip and a chair" - Quotation by Anonymous

"Poker's a day to learn and a lifetime to master" - Saying of Robert Williamson III

"Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom" - from VP Pappy

"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" - Quotation by Lou Krieger

"If you're too careful, you're whole life can become a fuck'in grind. (Quote from Rounders, Matt Damon)

"Poker is not a game of cards played with other people, it is a game of people played with cards"  - Quotation by Anonymous

"Nobody wins always in the poker, and the one that says that he does or lies or does not play poker. " - Proverb by Yellow Slim.

" 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 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" - Great saying by W. Somerset Maugham

"You gotta know when to hold'em, know when to foldem, know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you're sittin at the table, there'll be time enuff for countin' when the dealin's done." - Quote from The Gambler, Kenny Rodgers

"You call...gonna be all over, baby." - Saying by Scotty Nguyen, during the 1998 World Series of Poker while holding the nuts, playing heads-up.

"Holdem is to stud what chess is to checkers." - Proverb from Johnny Moss

"I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him."  - Quotation by "Amarillo" Slim Preston

"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 the species." - Saying by Mark Twain

"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped at the poker table; if the other 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 cards, as in life." Quotation from Anthony Holden in "Big Deal"

"Poker reveals to the frank observer something else of import -it will teach him about his own nature. Many bad players do not improve because the cannot bear self-knowledge." Proverb by David Mamet

"Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker." Quote from Amarillo Slim

"You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once." Quotation by Amarillo Slim

"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money." Proverb by Canada Bill Jones

"See, in my world - the world of high-stakes gin and poker - we play for cold, hard cash. It's all business, pure and simple. Anyone who thinks cardplaying is a 'game' - I'll show you a loser. Money... M-O-N-E-Y. That's how you measure success. One dollar at a time. One chip at a time. That's how you keep score." Quotation by Stu Unger

"The key in the poker is never to lose the head. If you lose it, assurance that you will lose all your chips " Proverb by William J. Florence

"If the luck was not influencing the poker I always would win " Motivation saying by Phil Hellmuth

"The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius"  Quotation by Anonymous

"Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting".  Quotation by Lou Krieger

"Poker is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency" Quote from Raymond Chandler

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e., everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time" - Exerpt from Good Omens, 1991, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

"You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone" Saying from Lou Krieger

"There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be Go West, young man, and grow up with the country. Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, Shuffle up and deal" Quotation from Lou Krieger

"Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where - at least in the short run - the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens" Motivation saying by John Luckacs

"Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just" Deep thoughts by Lou Krieger

"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand" - Poker truth by Jonathan Swift

"In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket" - Proverb by Beausourire

"Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking" - Great saying from Nick Dandalos

"Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise" Deep thoughts by David Moschella

"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 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"  Great saying by W. Somerset Maugham

"Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown" Proverb by Ambrose Bierce

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died" Motivational quote by Seven Wright

"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport" Quote from Charles Lamb

"The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time" Motivational saying by David Shoup

"Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead" Great saying from Jackie Robinson

"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" Quotation from David Mamet

"Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other 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 cards, as in life" Motivational saying by Anthony Holden

"Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature" Quote by David A Daniel

"TAKE MY LUCK FOR WINNING " Great saying by Anonymous

"Poker is not a game of cards played with other people, it is a game of people played with cards"  - Great saying by Anonymous

"If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you"  Excerpt from Rounders, David Levien and Brian Koppelman

"[Poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great" Quote from Walter Matthau

"The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time" Quotation by David Shoup

"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport" Saying from Charles Lamb

"I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream.  Poker is good for you.  It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and - when played well, nourishes the wallet" Saying by Lou Krieger

"Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature" Proverb by David A. Daniel


"With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,
And spades, the emblems of untimely graves" - Poker Poem by William Cowper

"Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy.  It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just" Motivation saying by Lou Krieger

"Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music.  It's this great American thing, born and bred here.  We dig it because everybody can play" Deep thoughts by Steve Lipscomb

"You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth:  The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are.  It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone" Motivational thoughts by Lou Krieger

"Old card players never die, they just shuffle away" - Great saying by Anonymous

"In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise" Quote from Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

"I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one?  People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it.  But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want.  So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege" Deep thoughts (or justification?) by Jack Binion

"Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you."- Quote from Jack Strauss

"At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck." Taken from Casino Royale - 1953 by Ian Fleming

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