Educational Poker Quotes


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“If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.”

- Anonymous

spade icon “The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you are playing with or, more particularly, with the cards. There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips”

- William J. Florence

spade icon "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."

- Jack Strauss

spade icon "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."

- Jack Strauss

spade icon “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.”

- Mark Twain

spade icon “You can't let it get you down when somebody knocks you out of a tournament playing a hand they shouldn't have played. Without these types of players, nobody would win any amount of money, so sometimes you just have to take your medicine.”

- T. J. Cloutier

spade icon “It's hard work, gambling. Playing poker. Don't let anyone tell you different. Think about what it's like sitting at a poker table with people whose only goal is to cut your throat, take your money and leave you out the back talking to yourself about what went wrong inside. That probably sounds harsh. But that's the way it is at the poker table. If you don't believe me, then you're the lamb that's going off to the slaughter.”

- Stu Unger

spade icon “You will show your poker greatness by the hands you fold, not the hands you play.”

- Dan Reed

spade icon “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.”

- Anthony Holden

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“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.”

- Lou Krieger

spade icon “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.”

- Lou Krieger

spade icon “Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression: If you cards are good enough for your to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with."

- Alfred Alvarez

spade icon "When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience."

- Anonymous

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