Famous Poker Quotes...

“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.”


---------------Norman Chad

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“I wish I wasn’t alive to hear this.”

--------------Norman Chad, when Mike “The Mouth” Matusow threw a fit after a losing hand

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“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

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

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

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"Winning poker is about making correct decisions."

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

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"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

High Stakes Poker: Season 6 Episode 3

HIGH STAKES POKER SEASON 5 PROMO - Sundays @ 9/8c

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


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

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"It's unlucky to be superstitious."

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

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"Who gives you action?"

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Grimm, 30 - America's Got Talent 2010, Auditions LA

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)

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"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

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

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

Not-So-Famous Poker Quotes...

"Pass the cheese!"

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

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"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

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“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