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"It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

-------------Gore Vidal

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"If you know poker, you know people; and if you know people, you got the whole dang world lined up in your sights.

-------------Brett Maverick

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"Well, I'll just pretend I was playin' with someone else's money."

------------ Jodie Foster as Annabelle in the movie Maverick

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"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."

------------Anthony Holden

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"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."

------------------Bobby Baldwin

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"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned"

--------------Paul Newman as Fast Eddie in The Color of Money

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"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."

-------------Jesse May

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"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."

-------------Anthony Holden, author of Big Deal (1990)

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"Bad beats only happen to good players."

--------------Joe Crow

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"The two things you need to be successful in poker are, first, find the muck, and second, don’t play your own money."

---------------David "Devilfish" Ulliott

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Dr. Robert Chase: "Gambling doesn't take away his pain."
Dr. Gregory House: [enters] "It does if I win."

Quote from the TV-Series House, M.D.

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"Omaha is a game that was invented by a Sadist and is played by Masochists."

--------------- Shane Smith

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"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; thou the way you play it is free will."

-----------Jawaharlal Nehru