Famous Poker Quotes...

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

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

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

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

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



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

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

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

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

Card Player Killed after men barge into Rocky Mount Home

Copied from www.wral.com/news/local/story/6727163

Card Player Killed after men barge into Rocky Mount home

Famous Poker Quotes...

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

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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

Famous Poker Quotes...

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

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned"

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Bad beats only happen to good players."

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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

Famous Poker Quotes...

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.

Famous Poker Quotes...

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

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"I wonder if a horse-shoe stuck in your butt is something you can look up on WebMD...."



Norman Chad (referencing squabble when Scotty Nguyen tells Michael DiMichele that he has a horseshoe up his butt)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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."


-------------Vannevar Bush, architect of the Internet

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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."


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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Your first duty is to the Game; then come Mother, God, and Country."


-------------Anonymous, Motto at the National Press Club, Washington DC

Famous Poker Quotes...

"In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket."


------------Beausourire, Haitian Poker Player

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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 (2001)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"A faint heart never filled a spade flush."

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Serious poker is no more about gambling than rock climbing is about taking risks."

---------------Alfred Alvarez

Famous Poker Quotes...

Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money.

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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."


-------------David Moschella

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Life is too long to play bad cards."

------------Frank Di Elsi

Famous Quotes...

"The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great."


-------------Walter Matthau

Famous Quotes...

"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?"

-------------Somerset Maugham

Famous Quotes...

"Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags."


-------------David Mamet

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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."

------------Mike Caro

Famous Quotes...

"All I know is, if the cards ever break even — I’m screwed."


------------Rich Korbin

Famous Quotes...

"Is you in or is you out?"

------------Louis Gossett, Jr from the movie "ALL IN"

Famous Poker Quotes...

Mae West: "Is poker a game of chance?"

W.C. Fields: "Not the way I play it. — My Little Chickadee"

Famous Poker Quotes...

"......that's poker and just because you have pains, you don't have to be one."

Doyle Brunson in his blog after talking about losing some big pots

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Who are we waiting on?"



--------------Everyone that plays in a game with the Turlinator

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Once you start thinking you have nothing left to learn, you have everything to learn."

------------Steve Badget

Famous Poker Quotes...

"In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know."


-------------Rick Bennet

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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."

------------Jack Binion

Famous Poker Quotes...

"It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell."

-------------Grantland Rice, Sportswriter

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Egotism is the anesthetic provided by nature to dull the pain of being a damn fool."


------------ Chuck Humphrey

Famous Quotes...

"Money won't buy you happiness, but it will buy you the kind of misery that you can thoroughly enjoy...."

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming."

--------------Puggy Pearson, 1973 WSOP winner (2001)

Famous Poker Quotes...

"To master poker and make it profitable, you must first master patience and discipline, as a lack of either is a sure disaster regardless of all other talents, or lucky streaks."

-------------Freddie Gasperian

Famous Poker Quotes...

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

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

Famous Poker Quotes...

'It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell."

------------ Grantland Rice, Sportswriter

Famous Poker Quotes...

"A card player should learn that once the money is in the pot, it isn't his any longer."

-------------Herbert Yardley (1957)

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

Stewie (to one of the prostitutes at Cleveland's house): "So, is there any tread left on the tires? Or at this point would it be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway?"

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

"Listen you, I'll use these facilities when I'm DAMN WELL READY!

Until then you shall continue to sanitize my crevasse and be DAMN GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY! Starting right... [He strains for a moment. Nothing happens.]

Well, not now... BUT SOON!"

Famous Poker Quotes...

"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."


------------- Johnny Luckacs (1963)

Famous Movie Quotes...

"I'm perfect if anybody wants a one-balled, deaf, blind, unemployed vagrant with a limp."

--------------Tom Selleck as Jon Aldrich from the 1992 movie "FOLKS"

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

"I bet you lost your virginity to a mechanical bull."

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

Stewie: [Picking up the phone.] Hello, operator. Hello... Oh god, that's right you have to punch in the numbers nowadays. Uhhh, I should know this. Oh yes, [dialing number] Stewie: 867-5309, yes that's it. Wait that's not it, damn you Tommy Two-Tone. Huh, only one thing to do 111-1111, Lois? Damn. 111-1112 Lois? DAMN. 111-1113...



-----------Steve Griffin

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

Do these huggies make my ass look big?


-----------Stewie Griffin

Famous Quotes from Stewie Griffin

"You know, I rather like this God fellow. Very theatrical, you know. Pestilence here, a plague there. Omnipotence ... gotta get me some of that."

---------------Stewie Griffin

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom."

-------------V.P. Pappy

Famous Movie Quotes...

"Give them nothing.... take from them everything."

-------------King Leonidas, 300

Famous Poker Quotes...

"I have not yet begun to defile myself."

-------------Doc Holliday from the movie Tombstone

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

-------------Albert Einstein

World Tavern Poker Open 9

Famous Quotes...

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."

-------------Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Have some patience, they're not closing the doors tomorrow."



-------------Frank Dielsi

Teen fatally shot while running from robbery

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/5964860/

Teen fatally shot while running from robbery

Posted: Today at 11:58 a.m.
Updated: Today at 2:02 p.m.

Rocky Mount, N.C. — Rocky Mount police are seeking about a half-dozen men who disguised themselves as police officers and fatally shot a 17-year-old boy during a robbery Tuesday night.

Police said that four to six masked men posing as police got out of an SUV near a group of men playing cards around 11 p.m. outside a 2104 Travis Run. The gunmen pulled out handguns, shotguns and rifles and ordered the card players to lie down, police said. They began robbing the card players, as well as people inside the trailer.

Jermaine Larquez Lynch, who lives nearby, saw the robbery going on and tried to run away, police said. One of the gunmen shot him in the back.

Lynch was struck in the shoulder and chest, police said. He was pronounced dead at Nash General Hospital.

A K9 search turned up some of the stolen items in a ditch near 2105 Brandon Lane, but no suspects.

Police officers canvassed the neighborhood and set up a checkpoint to see if anyone had witnessed the incident.

The one gunman who wasn't wearing a mask was described as a black man between 45 and 50 years old, with a thin build and a gray, thin beard, police said.

Anyone with information about the crime should call Detective Michael Lewis at 252-972-1457 or Crime Stoppers at 252-977-1111. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in certain felony cases, and callers never have to identify themselves.

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/5964860/

Famous Poker Quotes...

"There's the rest of the world and there's me!"

Phil Hellmuth Jr.

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Be the hammer, not the nail."


------------Barbara Enright

Famous Poker Quotes...

"May the flop be with you."



------------Brandi Williams

Famous Poker Quotes...

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun!"

-------------Tom McEvoy

Tournament Coin Flips

Tournament coin flips

If you’re a tournament player, you probably know your coin-flips, and you probably hate their guts too. A poker coin-flip is a situation which carries approximately 50-50 odds for the two players involved. It is generally not a good idea to get all your money in on such odds, but in tournaments such moves are virtually inevitable. The rising blinds and dwindling stack sizes force players to undertake such desperate measures. As a matter of fact, in a tournament, getting all your money in on a coin flip is sometimes the best possible move you can make.
In principle, taking a coin-flip for your stack is a bad idea. There are few exceptions in cash games which justify such a move, and normally, instead of getting your money in on adverse odds, the advice would be to wait for a better opportunity to shove all-in. For the above mentioned reasons though, you’re unable to do that in a tournament.
The bottom line is, you do not want to flip for your tourney life, but you will have to. Since you know you’ll have to do it anyway, you may as well look for ways to better your odds when it comes to the coin flip. That’s right, even if the odds are close to 50-50, there are still ways for you to secure an advantage over your opponents.

One such advantage comes via a subtle little factor known as the fold equity. In every coin-flip, there’s a player who does the shoving and there’s a player who does the calling. The guy who shoves all-in has an advantage over the caller for one simple reason: he has two possibilities to win the hand: his opponents may fold or he may end up winning the coin-flip. Though this edge is quite impossible to put into numbers, it is one that will indeed increase your odds. You cannot possibly avoid taking a coin-flip for your tourney life, but you can pick your spots. Make sure you’re the aggressor, as that always gives you control of a situation and the coin flip is no exception either. If your opponents fold, you may not score a double-up, but you’ll still take down the blinds, which – in the late stages of a tournament - are always substantial.

Make sure your coin flip is indeed a coin flip. I mean keep in mind that a coin-flip should always be a near 50-50 situation. A 30-70 one is definitely not a coin flip any longer.
Hands like Ace-rag are easily dominated and although they have the potential to bust someone’s pocket Ks, most of the time, they’ll lose out to any pocket pair or any other hand that has an Ace in it. When you need to get really lucky just to make the match-up a coin-flip, you’re definitely not getting good value on your do or die move.

A low pocket pair is also an easily dominated hand. Take a pair of 3s for instance. If you get your opponent to call you on something like A,K, A,Q or A,J you’re looking good and you have your coin-flip indeed. If you happen to run it into another pocket pair though, given that it’s one of the smallest possible pocket pairs, you won’t get a coin-flip, but rather a one-sided whooping.
The bottom line is that you need to have a read on your opponent. If you shove all in and some guy with a large stack calls you, chances are he’s making the move on a subpar hand just to push you out of the game. The only way to make sure you are indeed getting coin-flip odds though is to pay attention to the types of hands your opponent plays under the given circumstances.

Being in control is always good, and the coin-flip is no exception here. Make sure you get your coin-flip odds and shove, don’t call. That’s about all there is to coin-flip strategy. The rest hinges on things out of your reach.
Signing up for a rakeback deal makes prefect sense for an online tournament player too. The rake rebate that you get through a deal like the full tilt rakeback or the betfair rakeback will cover your cash game rake as well as your tournament fees.

HIGH STAKES POKER SEASON 5 Episode 13

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Girls just wanna have funds."

-------------Tina Sue

Famous Poker Quotes...

"If life were fair, horses would ride half of the time."


-------------George Marlowe

Top Ten Poker Players Ranked by Overall Earnings...

Top 10 players ranked by overall earnings.
1.Jamie Gold
$12.2 mil
2.Daniel Negreanu
$11.3 mil
3.Joe Hachem
$10.6 mil
4.Scotty Nguyen
$10.2 mil
5.Allen Cunningham
$9.9 mil
6.Peter Eastgate
$9.7 mil
7.Phil Ivey
$9.6 mil
8.Erik Seidel
$9.2 mil
9.T.J. Cloutier
$9.1 mil
10.John Juanda
$9.1 mil

Senate Poker Bill Introduced

Senate Poker Bill Introduced

On August 6th, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced S. 1597, the Internet Poker and Games of Skill Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act of 2009. This legislation would license and regulate Internet poker and other games of skill in the United States. With the introduction of this bill in the Senate, we are one step closer to clarifying the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and protecting our rights to play the game we all love. Click here to read the bill and the PPA press release about S. 1597.

We need to keep up the momentum, and we need to help Senator Menendez get his bill moving in the U.S. Senate. Please take 60 seconds right now to send an updated letter to your senators. We’ve made it easy for you. Simply click the button below to send a strong message to Washington that you want your poker rights protected.

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Famous Poker Quotes...

"Poker tournaments are a lottery with a positive expectation."



-------------Christian Voorhees

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Drink until he or she is cute."



-------------Tom McEvoy

Famous Poker Quotes...

"The cards don't always recognize talent."



-------------Brad Daugherty

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B. Fraley, PPA Member, Austin, TX, 7/6/09

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Famous Poker Quotes...

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



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

Famous Poker Quotes...

"The best way to win a tournament is to play every hand."



------------Bob Craig

Famous Poker Quotes...

"I won a bracelet and now people give me guff about wearing it. I always reply, 'When you have one, we can talk!'"

-------------Brian Wilson

Doyle Brunson Wins an $800K Pot

HIGH STAKES POKER SEASON 5 Hachem breaks it down.

Last Action for National Poker Week: Call Your Members of Congress

From: PPA Action Alert
Subject: Last Action for National Poker Week: Call Your Members of Congress

Dear Readers,

National Poker Week has been a huge success and thanks to you and others, we have had great results:

Over 375,000 have signed the petition for President Obama
Over 200,000 letters have been sent to Congress
More than 100 face-to-face meetings with Members of U.S. House and Senate or their staffs

However, one last action is needed to make National Poker Week truly something to be remembered. Call your Members of Congress and let them know that you support the PPA and sensible poker legislation.

Take a few moments to call each of your Members of Congress and tell them the following:

You are a constituent, voter, and poker player

Please support legislation to license and regulate internet poker (in the U.S. House the bill is HR 2267, a U.S. Senate bill will be introduced later this month.)

Regulation is the best way to protect consumers and will raise billions in revenue for our country

Support my right to play America's favorite game of skill

Be sure to call your Members of Congress between 9am - 5pm EST:
Sen. Richard Burr - (202) 224-3154
Sen. Kay R. Hagan - (202) 224-6342
Represenative - Phone

After your call, click here to let us know how the call went. This is important for tracking calls to Members of Congress.

Thank you for your continued efforts.Let our poker freedom ring their phones!
Senator Alfonse D’Amato
PPA Chairman

The Poker Players Alliance
Dedicated to Protecting America's Favorite Card Game The Poker Players Alliance is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of poker players and enthusiasts from around the United States who have joined together to speak with one voice to promote the game and to protect poker players' rights.

Famous Poker Quotes...

"Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains."



-------------Mike Caro

Famous Poker Quotes...

"You have to learn what kind of hand this guy shows down, what that one's moves, watch the veins in his neck, watch his eyes, the way he sweats."



------------Johnny Moss

PPA Member Alert!!! We Need Your Help Today for National Poker Week!

From: PPA Member Alert [mailto:email@theppa.org]
Subject: We Need Your Help Today for National Poker Week!

We Need Your Help Today!

Over 300,000 Have Signed the Petition for Obama

Over 90,000 Letters Have Been Sent to Congress
National Poker Week is in full swing!
ESPN, Associated Press, and more have already written articles about poker players nationwide taking a stand for their rights.
Visit the National Poker Week website at www.nationalpokerweek.com

1. Join 30,000 Others and Send a Letter to Congress.
2. Join 300,000 Others and Sign the Poker Petition.

Let Washington, D.C. know that you believe in personal freedom and want the rights of law abiding, poker-playing Americans protected.

Join the Fight during National Poker Week!

Senator Alfonse D'Amato
PPA Chairman


The Poker Players AllianceDedicated to Protecting America's Favorite Card Game The Poker Players Alliance is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of poker players and enthusiasts from around the United States who have joined together to speak with one voice to promote the game and to protect poker players' rights. Visit us at theppa.org.

HIGH STAKES POKER SEASON 5 Real Poker

Sick bluff or lucky mistake.....

HIGH STAKES POKER SEASON 5 Antonio Loses 50K

I thought this only happened with the Juice...

Famous Poker Quotes...

"If you reraise a raiser, and he doesn't raise you back, you know he has kicker problems."

-------------- Crandall Addington

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Famous Poker Quotes...

"It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money."

----------------Alfred Alvarez

A common thread....

If there is one common thread, one common characteristic that unites all exceptional poker players, I believe it is their willingness to play aggressive poker. Whether you like it or not, aggression seems to have a magical, mystical effect at the poker table. And in many instances, hmm, most instances, seems to be rewarded by the poker gods. A big, strong raise is usually better than a mere call, and when you can't raise, folding should at least be seriously considered.

Famous Poker Quotes...

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

-------------Jackie Robinson

Famous Poker Quotes...

"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."

-------------Canada Bill Jones

Math is overrated