tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-176926142012-02-15T10:22:03.708-05:00***** Bad Beats & Great Hands ***** Hello & welcome to our poker blog site of bad beats & great hands! Especially designed for people who love the game of poker. You are invited to share your stories with the group. Our typical group plays a mixture of hold 'em and omaha 8, but please post your stories from any games where wagering is involved and donkeys are plentiful. Let the suck outs begin!Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.comBlogger13811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-28973629917179676812011-12-16T14:50:00.001-05:002011-12-16T14:50:48.706-05:00<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2897362991717967681?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Surgesilkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014936396190837440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-12447917773182856722011-04-24T12:45:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:51:39.295-05:00You are cordially invited to the <br />5th annual 40/42 Ducks Unlimited <br />Texas Hold-em Poker Tournament<br /><br />Saturday, April 30th<br /><br />American Legion Clayton, NC<br /><br /><br />****** Main event donation of $100 ******<br /><br />Main Event limited to 90 players<br /><br />Ladies Table limited to 10 players<br /><br /><br />For a $100 donation, you will receive Dinner and drinks, A one-year membership to Ducks Unlimited, A one-year subscription to the DU magazine, Main Event = 1st-10th place prizes Ladies table = one winner<br /><br /><br />Doors open at 5:30 p.m. We are even going to have a couple of guns to give away!<br /><br /><br />Space is limited so get your tickets early!<br /><br />For ticket information, please contact Donnie Stiles 919-422-0074 Or donniestiles@gmail.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1244791777318285672?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-55927297168923976272011-04-22T01:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:43:42.820-05:00"Lon, if you're going to laydown a set of tens there you might as well be selling refrigerator magnets on the beach."<br /><br />--------------Norman Chad, after Tommy Reed tells David "the Dragon" Pham that he mucked a set of tens on a A, J, 7, 10 board with two diamonds.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-5592729716892397627?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-20088537884548036902011-04-15T01:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:50:57.669-05:00"If the shoe fits, steal it."<br /><br />-------------Lou Krieger<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2008853788454803690?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1460164739481824672011-04-02T06:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:49:42.338-05:00"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."<br /><br />-------------Lou Krieger<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-146016473948182467?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-49815107748536259092011-04-01T06:08:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:50:29.394-05:00Ike Clanton: "What is that Holliday? Twelve hands in a row? Ain't nobody that lucky."<br /><br />Doc Holliday: "Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!"<br /><br />From one of my favorite movies...... Tombstone<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4981510774853625909?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-83336461737247131452011-03-22T01:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:49:19.723-05:00"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.'<br /><br />----------------Stu Ungar<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8333646173724713145?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-15312674825533428582011-03-11T01:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:48:56.168-05:00"A card player should learn that once the money is in the pot, it isn't his any longer."<br /><br />-------------- Herbert Yardley (1957)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1531267482553342858?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-46267962232976109212011-03-02T01:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:48:30.739-05:00"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker... Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kindhearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a 'flush'. It is enough to make one ashamed of one's species."<br /><br />-------------Mark Twain<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4626796223297610921?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-8972109700065721932011-02-19T01:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:48:00.296-05:00"A day may come when the courage of Men fails... when we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship... but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when all hope comes crashing down, but it is NOT this day! This day, we fight!"<br /><br />-------------Aragorn, at the Black Gate<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-897210970006572193?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-26999659045981647042011-02-01T06:25:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:47:37.462-05:00"Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking."<br /><br />-------------Nick Dandalos, attributed<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2699965904598164704?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-22926015995704287392011-01-11T06:30:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:47:11.391-05:00“A typical final table takes 8-10 hours. We’re going to show 45 minutes of it. Of the 150-200 hands that are played, we show 15 of them.”<br /><br /><br />---------------Norman Chad<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2292601599570428739?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-14863000677313220152011-01-01T06:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:46:46.163-05:00“I wish I wasn’t alive to hear this.”<br /><br />--------------Norman Chad, when Mike “The Mouth” Matusow threw a fit after a losing hand<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1486300067731322015?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-11135939900884015412010-12-25T06:15:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:46:19.074-05:00“To be honest with you, Lon, when you travel with your mother, it usually doesn't intimidate the other players.”<br /><br />-----------------Norman Chad, after 2004 runner-up David Williams hugged his mom<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1113593990088401541?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-17523935696040334262010-12-01T01:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:45:49.395-05:00I'm all in.... what I got?<br /><br />------------Anonymous -and- everyone I know in Omaha 8<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1752393569604033426?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-37189284905814445142010-11-14T06:30:00.000-05:002011-04-24T12:44:54.357-05:00"Winning poker is about making correct decisions."<br /><br />------------ Phil Gordon (from Phil Gordon's Little Green Book calendar)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-3718928490581444514?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1166133665639246292010-11-02T01:30:00.000-05:002010-11-01T20:34:10.792-05:00"Hit the other fellow, as quick as you can, and as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'."<br /><br />-------------Unrecorded British sergeant-major, on the definition of strategy<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-116613366563924629?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-8792299033450582932010-11-01T20:36:00.000-05:002010-11-01T20:36:10.649-05:00<object style="background-image:url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/cu4NtO27Xkg/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cu4NtO27Xkg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cu4NtO27Xkg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" width="480" height="295" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-879229903345058293?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-90943096370835661902010-06-30T13:11:00.000-05:002010-06-30T13:11:07.575-05:00<object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/NA8c55FJm38/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NA8c55FJm38&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NA8c55FJm38&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-9094309637083566190?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1166133288578818742010-06-29T18:00:00.000-05:002010-06-30T13:01:14.959-05:00"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."<br /><br /><br />----------- General William T. Sherman<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-116613328857881874?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1163700619573273962010-06-28T01:00:00.000-05:002010-06-30T13:00:22.752-05:00"It's unlucky to be superstitious."<br /><br />-------------Roland Waters<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-116370061957327396?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-81753706753443729072010-06-25T01:00:00.000-05:002010-06-30T12:59:44.292-05:00"Who gives you action?"<br /><br />-----------Common banter between Rick & the Juice just prior to someone getting 'poke-chopped'<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8175370675344372907?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1163086758851359802010-06-20T01:00:00.000-05:002010-06-30T12:59:03.932-05:00"There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one."<br /><br />------------ Jack Yelton<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-116308675885135980?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1166133355763347732010-06-15T07:00:00.000-05:002010-06-30T12:58:40.587-05:00"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."<br /><br />------------ General George S. Patton<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-116613335576334773?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-60894642612074704242010-06-13T12:35:00.000-05:002010-06-13T12:35:59.839-05:00<object style="background-image:url(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/IMvJw_TnyyU/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IMvJw_TnyyU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IMvJw_TnyyU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1" width="480" height="295" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-6089464261207470424?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-45592417770056197902010-05-25T01:00:00.000-05:002010-06-30T12:57:31.777-05:00"I can't play poker with people who don't care anything about money!"<br /><br />------------Bart (just after the Juice had hit an all-in $4K gut shot)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4559241777005619790?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1166017332383102292010-05-21T19:36:00.000-05:002010-06-30T12:56:57.619-05:00"Besides lovemaking and singing in the shower, there aren't many human activities where there is a greater difference between a person's self-delusional ability and their actual ability than in poker."<br /><br />-------------Steve Badger<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-116601733238310229?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1163529794858212262010-05-17T01:00:00.000-05:002010-06-30T12:56:23.722-05:00"Play good, and when all else fails - suck out."<br /><br />-------------Susie Isaacs<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-116352979485821226?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-18923696994669234572010-05-14T01:00:00.000-05:002010-06-30T12:55:39.284-05:00"Pass the cheese!"<br /><br />------------Ron Walters (anytime he scoops a big pot)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1892369699466923457?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-56770811543431758562010-05-12T06:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:42:58.063-05:00"Poker is a lot like sex. Everybody thinks they are great at it, but most people don't really know what they're doing."<br /><br />----------------Anonymous<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-5677081154343175856?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-85265025280087550492010-05-11T01:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:41:59.196-05:00“The rules of poker were designed to minimize the number of people that had to be shot at the table. When a rule is broken, the game suffers. If the host doesn't want to punish recidivist behavior, I have no problem being the asshole -- though I prefer the term 'sergeant-at-arms.'”<br /><br />------------- Charles Star, A New York City resident and stand-up comedian<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8526502528008755049?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-26619124075199205432010-05-06T01:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:47:21.967-05:00"I cleaned their clocks alright, but sadly they had many clocks and I used very expensive clock cleaner."<br /><br />-------------- Rick after a short-handed loss with the Juice &amp; the Turlinator<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2661912407519920543?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-75428571468561294012010-05-01T01:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:46:48.764-05:00"That's me! That's all me! Give me the chips. Give 'em here!"<br /><br />-------- The Juice announces after all cards are turned up and then watching ALL the chips go to someone else<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-7542857146856129401?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1163086556077587132010-04-30T01:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:46:21.424-05:00"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."<br /><br />------------------- Amarillo Slim<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-116308655607758713?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1156428336577481052010-04-22T01:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:45:53.043-05:00“It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it..”<br /><br />--------------- Amarillo Slim<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-115642833657748105?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1132780359263352822010-04-15T01:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:45:22.835-05:00After raking a rather large pot in a weekly home game, he said:<br /><br />"I'd trade it all for a little bit more!"<br /><br />-------------Jim Loricchio<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-113278035926335282?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-85374134783472293072010-04-11T12:13:00.002-05:002010-04-11T12:15:19.072-05:00If you play tournament poker, I invite you to come check out <a href="http://www.tournamentpokeredge.com/">www.tournamentpokeredge.com</a>.<br /><br />We offer blogs, articles, forums and training videos from the best live and online pros including Wein, HITTHEPANDA, Hagbard Celine and bigdogpckt5s (currently #1 in the race for the Cardplayer Magazone Online Player of the Year).<br /><br />Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8537413478347229307?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Derek's Pokerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15605906938731299083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-46542217853461861212010-04-01T06:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:44:41.714-05:00I won my ticket on Titanic in a lucky hand of poker...a very lucky hand.<br /><br />----------- Jack, in the Movie Titanic<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4654221785346186121?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1155827231778929822010-03-25T01:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:43:53.498-05:00"A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walking around lucky and not know it."<br /><br />-------------- Robert Turner<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-115582723177892982?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-28735197710139848912010-03-22T20:26:00.004-05:002010-03-22T20:34:09.043-05:00The Downtown Raleigh Sheraton set the stage for a World Class Poker Tournament in the heart of our capital city. WSOP World Champion, Greg "Fossilman" Raymer and Bracelet Winner, Mike Gracz headlined the 110 player field. With Final Four tickets as the 1st place prize, short stacks battled and big stacks bullied until Chris Barrow ended up with all the chips. Check the <a href="http://chipsforcharity.blogspot.com/">Chips for Charity Blog</a> for player pics and videos from our local Poker Pros.<br /><br />run good, play great<br />Bradley<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2873519771013984891?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bradley_Utzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11216398230738814691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-7055970848035693672010-03-16T17:45:00.000-05:002010-03-17T17:54:48.033-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SKzrr2aBgBo/S6Fcsr3yYFI/AAAAAAAABU4/vIZwPdrIZf8/s1600-h/ChipsForCharity2010.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 299px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 108px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449738946855723090" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SKzrr2aBgBo/S6Fcsr3yYFI/AAAAAAAABU4/vIZwPdrIZf8/s320/ChipsForCharity2010.bmp" /></a> <br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SKzrr2aBgBo/S6FcYCvRztI/AAAAAAAABUw/WpgaTMigU-E/s1600-h/ChipsForCharity2010+EVENT.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 123px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449738592216796882" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SKzrr2aBgBo/S6FcYCvRztI/AAAAAAAABUw/WpgaTMigU-E/s200/ChipsForCharity2010+EVENT.bmp" /></a> <br /> <br /><div>So, You Think You're Good?.... <br /> <br />....Then Prove It! </div> <br /><div></div> <br /><div> <br /> <br />Okay, so you've whipped up on Aunt Betty and Cousin Terry at the family reunion and you've won 2 out of the last 15 tournaments in your friendly neighborhood poker league and now you think you're ready to take out a second mortgage on the house and head to Vegas to play against the big dawgs? <br /></div> <br /> <br /><div>Well before you do, might we suggest you give your poker acumen a real examination and try your skill against some of the Triangle's very best poker players, including World Series of Poker champion Greg Raymer and World Poker Tour conqueror Michael Gracz. <br /></div> <br /> <br />Ohh....might I sense a hint of hesitation??? <br /> <br /> <br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <br /> <br />Don't miss your chance to go head to head with 2005 World Poker Tour champion Michael Gracz and 2004 WSOP winner Greg Raymer for a chance to win 2 tickets to the Final Four Championship in Indianapolis, IN. <br /> <br />We've done away with the Shoot-Out Style tourneys to allow each player an opportunity to knock off the world's best. Also, we've upped the starting stack from 2,000 to 3,000 and extended our blind times from 15 minutes to 25 minutes. <br /> <br />$100 to play (but you can save up to $65 by signing up online). Space is limited so don't miss your opportunity. <br /> <br />Smack talking starts at 11am (registration) and the butt kicking begins at high noon (shuffle up and deal). <br /> <br />Lunch is provided at no extra charge and a cash bar will be available. <br /> <br />Tons of prizes will be given away. <br /> <br /> <br />Many shall come....but only one will leave Victorious! <br /> <br />Reserve Your Seat Today! <br /> <br />Step 1.) Register online at www.chipsforcharity.com <br />Step 2.) Instantly receive your $15 registration discount <br />Step 3.) Tell your friends about the tournament <br />Step 4.) Receive a $10 cash rebate for each friend who registers online, up to $50.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-705597084803569367?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-72610223613846445282010-03-15T01:00:00.000-05:002010-05-12T17:43:25.510-05:00“We had 13 players this year. I look to have better than 20 next year. It’s even liable to get up to be 50.”<br /><br />--------------Benny Binion, after the 1973 WSOP<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-7261022361384644528?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1130165904061584712010-03-11T01:00:00.001-05:002010-03-17T17:40:51.604-05:00The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.<br /><br />-------------Heywood Broun<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-113016590406158471?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-48705547061888518082010-03-05T01:00:00.000-05:002010-03-17T17:44:08.230-05:00Limit 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.<br /><br /><br />-------------Crandall Addington, Texas oil millionaire<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4870554706188851808?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-10142429288009776792010-02-21T01:00:00.000-05:002010-03-17T17:42:08.916-05:00"Chance favors the prepared mind."<br /><br />--------------Louis Pasteur<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1014242928800977679?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1150149363851852602010-02-18T01:00:00.000-05:002010-03-17T17:41:29.272-05:00The strong take from the weak and the smart take from the strong.<br /><br />-----------Pete Carril, former Princeton basketball coach<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-115014936385185260?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1155827143860695102010-02-10T05:00:00.000-05:002010-03-17T17:43:30.926-05:00"The only bad luck for a good gambler is bad health. Any other setbacks are temporary aggravation."<br /><br />--------------- Benny Binion<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-115582714386069510?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1152282422440598972010-02-04T01:00:00.000-05:002010-02-02T18:46:09.860-05:00It'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 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.<br /><br />-------------Stu Unger<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-115228242244059897?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1149778629472678982010-02-02T01:00:00.000-05:002010-02-02T18:45:32.219-05:00The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.<br /><br />---------------Kin Hubbard<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-114977862947267898?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1149107493026227442010-01-31T01:00:00.000-05:002010-02-02T18:44:59.000-05:00"If we shoot him, we won't have anyone to play with."<br /><br />-------------Wyatt Earp to Doc Holliday in the 1964 movie Cheyen Autumn, discussing what to do with a cheater<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-114910749302622744?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1133194956194278232010-01-29T01:00:00.000-05:002010-02-02T18:44:21.418-05:00In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck. For every important place in life there are many men of fairly equal capacities. Among them luck decides who shall accomplish the great work, who shall be crowned with laurel, and who shall fall back into silence and obscurity.<br /><br />-------------William E. Woodward<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-113319495619427823?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1131546452735959762010-01-26T01:00:00.000-05:002010-02-02T18:43:46.959-05:00The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time.<br /><br />-------------General David Shoup<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-113154645273595976?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1131055481392099192010-01-24T01:00:00.000-05:002010-02-02T18:42:58.166-05:00Last night I stayed up late playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.<br />-------------Steven Wright<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-113105548139209919?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1132780109519677532010-01-22T01:00:00.000-05:002010-01-22T21:48:11.438-05:00Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.<br /><br />-------------Josh Billings<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-113278010951967753?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1134491571789133772010-01-17T01:00:00.000-05:002010-01-22T21:47:36.688-05:00I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?<br /><br />------------- Jean Cocteau<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-113449157178913377?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-82690404481472059822010-01-15T01:00:00.000-05:002010-01-22T21:47:02.428-05:00"They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them."<br /><br />-----------------Amarillo Slim<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8269040448147205982?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-43225886506232265452010-01-13T01:00:00.000-05:002010-01-22T21:46:16.385-05:00"The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be."<br /><br /><br /><br />---------------Mark Pilarski<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4322588650623226545?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-77584498489960503802010-01-11T02:02:00.000-05:002010-01-22T21:45:44.805-05:00"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."<br /><br />-----------------Lou Krieger<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-7758449848996050380?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-45671246307973665612010-01-07T01:00:00.000-05:002010-01-22T21:45:09.456-05:00"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."<br /><br />------------Jonathan Swift<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4567124630797366561?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-82770126563561217582010-01-04T01:00:00.000-05:002010-01-05T00:02:49.323-05:00Copied from <a href="http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6727163">www.wral.com/news/local/story/6727163</a><br /><br />Card Player Killed after men barge into Rocky Mount home<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8277012656356121758?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-16121047352273358612009-12-26T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-26T09:19:36.451-05:00"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."<br /><br />-------------Gore Vidal<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1612104735227335861?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-5247816173792079792009-12-21T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-26T09:23:14.837-05:00"If you know poker, you know people; and if you know people, you got the whole dang world lined up in your sights.<br /><br />-------------Brett Maverick<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-524781617379207979?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-29309298723507919182009-12-18T02:00:00.000-05:002009-12-26T09:22:31.705-05:00"Well, I'll just pretend I was playin' with someone else's money."<br /><br />------------ Jodie Foster as Annabelle in the movie Maverick<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2930929872350791918?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-31680815560066548152009-12-16T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-26T09:21:54.101-05:00"Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life – but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score."<br /><br />------------Anthony Holden<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-3168081556006654815?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-60577816337230152142009-12-14T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-26T09:21:22.018-05:00"You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away."<br /><br />------------------Bobby Baldwin<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-6057781633723015214?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-86761706959385470162009-12-12T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-26T09:20:50.434-05:00"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned"<br /><br />--------------Paul Newman as Fast Eddie in The Color of Money<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8676170695938547016?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-36854743413244001792009-12-10T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-26T09:20:16.640-05:00"Poker is a combination of luck and skill. People think mastering the skill part is hard, but they're wrong. The trick to poker is mastering the luck."<br /><br />-------------Jesse May<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-3685474341324400179?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-33035730119745575292009-12-08T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-08T19:04:13.463-05:00"The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them."<br /><br />-------------Anthony Holden, author of Big Deal (1990)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-3303573011974557529?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-30953252419898731942009-12-07T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-08T19:03:41.265-05:00"Bad beats only happen to good players."<br /><br />--------------Joe Crow<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-3095325241989873194?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-16472055042998955982009-12-06T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-08T19:03:06.313-05:00"The two things you need to be successful in poker are, first, find the muck, and second, don’t play your own money."<br /><br />---------------David "Devilfish" Ulliott<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1647205504299895598?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-2257729275929932172009-12-05T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-05T21:41:23.224-05:00Dr. Robert Chase: "Gambling doesn't take away his pain."<br />Dr. Gregory House: [enters] "It does if I win."<br /><br />Quote from the TV-Series <em><strong>House, M.D.</strong></em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-225772927592993217?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-1165421175421076072009-12-04T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-05T21:40:48.060-05:00"Omaha is a game that was invented by a Sadist and is played by Masochists."<br /><br />--------------- Shane Smith<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-116542117542107607?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-62174776901860846522009-12-01T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-05T21:40:04.076-05:00"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; thou the way you play it is free will."<br /><br />-----------Jawaharlal Nehru<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-6217477690186084652?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-85449776438376763702009-11-29T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-05T21:39:23.791-05:00"I wonder if a horse-shoe stuck in your butt is something you can look up on WebMD...."<br /><br /><br /><br />Norman Chad (referencing squabble when Scotty Nguyen tells Michael DiMichele that he has a horseshoe up his butt)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8544977643837676370?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-63983642097337610142009-11-28T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-05T21:38:37.855-05:00"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."<br /><br /><br />-------------Vannevar Bush, architect of the Internet<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-6398364209733761014?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-38485653849465248602009-11-26T01:00:00.000-05:002009-12-05T21:37:20.773-05:00"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."<br /><br /><br />---------------Anonymous<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-3848565384946524860?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-41059984809156659492009-11-24T01:03:00.000-05:002009-11-25T18:40:29.167-05:00"Your first duty is to the Game; then come Mother, God, and Country."<br /><br /><br />-------------Anonymous, Motto at the National Press Club, Washington DC<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4105998480915665949?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-57034294854581426492009-11-23T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-25T18:39:37.789-05:00"In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket."<br /><br /><br />------------Beausourire, Haitian Poker Player<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-5703429485458142649?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-74860835436715713022009-11-21T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-25T18:36:42.329-05:00"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."<br /><br /><br />-------------Alfred Alvarez (2001)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-7486083543671571302?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-21957239001480929842009-11-20T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-25T18:35:51.332-05:00"A faint heart never filled a spade flush."<br /><br />---------------Anonymous<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2195723900148092984?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-23261340863682850302009-11-18T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-25T18:34:35.476-05:00"Serious poker is no more about gambling than rock climbing is about taking risks."<br /><br />---------------Alfred Alvarez<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2326134086368285030?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-25787404681665844192009-11-17T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-25T18:33:44.739-05:00Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money.<br /><br />-------------Anonymous<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2578740468166584419?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-85832037928492659022009-11-16T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-25T18:32:43.046-05:00"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 poker table until someone proves otherwise."<br /><br /><br />-------------David Moschella<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8583203792849265902?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-32590779383008752732009-11-14T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-15T15:00:11.060-05:00"Life is too long to play bad cards."<br /><br />------------Frank Di Elsi<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-3259077938300875273?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-61577126732658730612009-11-13T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-15T14:59:04.726-05:00"The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."<br /><br /><br />-------------Walter Matthau<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-6157712673265873061?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-23127365944932555522009-11-11T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-15T14:58:11.421-05:00"Poker is the only game for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and evern man's hand is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork?"<br /><br />-------------Somerset Maugham<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2312736594493255552?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-43636850756163441712009-11-10T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-15T14:57:12.031-05:00"Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags."<br /><br /><br />-------------David Mamet<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4363685075616344171?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-81149112754229766292009-11-08T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-15T14:56:11.606-05:00"Sometimes you'll miss a bet, sure, but it's OK to miss a bet. Poker is an art form, of course, but sometimes you have to sacrifice art in favour of making a profit."<br /><br />------------Mike Caro<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8114911275422976629?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-13642264880400213992009-11-07T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-15T14:55:17.194-05:00"All I know is, if the cards ever break even — I’m screwed."<br /><br /><br />------------Rich Korbin<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1364226488040021399?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-15065868584893212212009-11-06T01:15:00.000-05:002009-11-15T14:54:37.933-05:00"Is you in or is you out?"<br /><br />------------Louis Gossett, Jr from the movie "ALL IN"<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1506586858489321221?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-24484982484882954902009-11-04T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-03T07:51:48.095-05:00Mae West: "Is poker a game of chance?"<br /><br />W.C. Fields: "Not the way I play it. — My Little Chickadee"<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-2448498248488295490?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-45359272570567542852009-11-03T16:14:00.000-05:002009-11-03T07:51:19.548-05:00"......that's poker and just because you have pains, you don't have to be one."<br /><br />Doyle Brunson in his blog after talking about losing some big pots<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-4535927257056754285?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ftp_piratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11465536909428021061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-82917308506094973022009-11-02T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-03T07:50:40.530-05:00"Who are we waiting on?"<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------Everyone that plays in a game with the Turlinator<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8291730850609497302?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-83517545392947607572009-11-01T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-03T07:50:09.637-05:00"Once you start thinking you have nothing left to learn, you have everything to learn."<br /><br />------------Steve Badget<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8351754539294760757?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-81017940711962583072009-10-31T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-03T07:49:41.226-05:00"In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know."<br /><br /><br />-------------Rick Bennet<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-8101794071196258307?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-15029088642484391432009-10-28T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-03T07:49:07.114-05:00"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."<br /><br />------------Jack Binion<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-1502908864248439143?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-51082396541254525382009-10-26T01:00:00.000-05:002009-11-03T07:48:36.323-05:00"It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell."<br /><br />-------------Grantland Rice, Sportswriter<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-5108239654125452538?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-36488601141492682542009-10-24T01:00:00.001-05:002009-10-24T13:36:01.599-05:00"Egotism is the anesthetic provided by nature to dull the pain of being a damn fool."<br /><br /><br />------------ Chuck Humphrey<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-3648860114149268254?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-70642696593352722512009-10-22T01:00:00.001-05:002009-10-24T13:35:23.955-05:00"Money won't buy you happiness, but it will buy you the kind of misery that you can thoroughly enjoy...."<br /><br />------------Anonymous<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-7064269659335272251?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692614.post-63791530114611366232009-10-20T01:00:00.000-05:002009-10-20T20:54:53.796-05:00"Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming."<br /><br />--------------Puggy Pearson, 1973 WSOP winner (2001)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17692614-6379153011461136623?l=badbeatsandgreathands.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Charles Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12473629003656129621noreply@blogger.com0