Saturday, December 25, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

“To be honest with you, Lon, when you travel with your mother, it usually doesn't intimidate the other players.”

-----------------Norman Chad, after 2004 runner-up David Williams hugged his mom

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

I'm all in.... what I got?

------------Anonymous -and- everyone I know in Omaha 8

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Winning poker is about making correct decisions."

------------ Phil Gordon (from Phil Gordon's Little Green Book calendar)

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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'."

-------------Unrecorded British sergeant-major, on the definition of strategy

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."


----------- General William T. Sherman

Monday, June 28, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"It's unlucky to be superstitious."

-------------Roland Waters

Friday, June 25, 2010

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"Who gives you action?"

-----------Common banter between Rick & the Juice just prior to someone getting 'poke-chopped'

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one."

------------ Jack Yelton

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."

------------ General George S. Patton

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"I can't play poker with people who don't care anything about money!"

------------Bart (just after the Juice had hit an all-in $4K gut shot)

Friday, May 21, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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."

-------------Steve Badger

Monday, May 17, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Play good, and when all else fails - suck out."

-------------Susie Isaacs

Friday, May 14, 2010

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"Pass the cheese!"

------------Ron Walters (anytime he scoops a big pot)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Poker is a lot like sex. Everybody thinks they are great at it, but most people don't really know what they're doing."

----------------Anonymous

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

“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.'”

------------- Charles Star, A New York City resident and stand-up comedian

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"I cleaned their clocks alright, but sadly they had many clocks and I used very expensive clock cleaner."

-------------- Rick after a short-handed loss with the Juice & the Turlinator

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"That's me! That's all me! Give me the chips. Give 'em here!"

-------- The Juice announces after all cards are turned up and then watching ALL the chips go to someone else

Friday, April 30, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."

------------------- Amarillo Slim

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

“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..”

--------------- Amarillo Slim

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Not Famous Yet Quotes.....

After raking a rather large pot in a weekly home game, he said:

"I'd trade it all for a little bit more!"

-------------Jim Loricchio

Sunday, April 11, 2010

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Thursday, April 01, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

I won my ticket on Titanic in a lucky hand of poker...a very lucky hand.

----------- Jack, in the Movie Titanic

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"A person should gamble every day, because think of how bad it would be to walking around lucky and not know it."

-------------- Robert Turner

Monday, March 22, 2010

Chips for Charity

The 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 Chips for Charity Blog for player pics and videos from our local Poker Pros.

run good, play great
Bradley

Tuesday, March 16, 2010




So, You Think You're Good?....

....Then Prove It!




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Monday, March 15, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

“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.”

--------------Benny Binion, after the 1973 WSOP

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil.

-------------Heywood Broun

Friday, March 05, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

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.


-------------Crandall Addington, Texas oil millionaire

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Famous Quotes... (that can apply to poker)

"Chance favors the prepared mind."

--------------Louis Pasteur

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

The strong take from the weak and the smart take from the strong.

-----------Pete Carril, former Princeton basketball coach

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"The only bad luck for a good gambler is bad health. Any other setbacks are temporary aggravation."

--------------- Benny Binion

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

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 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

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

---------------Kin Hubbard

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"If we shoot him, we won't have anyone to play with."

-------------Wyatt Earp to Doc Holliday in the 1964 movie Cheyen Autumn, discussing what to do with a cheater

Friday, January 29, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

In 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.

-------------William E. Woodward

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time.

-------------General David Shoup

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
-------------Steven Wright

Friday, January 22, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

-------------Josh Billings

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

------------- Jean Cocteau

Friday, January 15, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them."

-----------------Amarillo Slim

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"The smarter you play, the luckier you'll be."



---------------Mark Pilarski

Monday, January 11, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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."

-----------------Lou Krieger

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Famous Poker Quotes...

"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."

------------Jonathan Swift

Monday, January 04, 2010