10 Random Poker Quotes

• "You will show your poker greatness by the hands you fold, not the hands you play." -Dan Reed
• There is less luck involved than a bad player thinks there is, and there more luck involved than a good player will admit there is
• For all you probability freaks, remember to consider the probability that an opponent is lying. Generally, liars dig holes and keep on lying, at least in the short run, as they try to climb out. Adjust your math prowess accordingly. Tells are paramount, as much or more as your calculating brain is. Poker becomes super-multi-variable when the psychological realm is joined with that already beautiful world of card probabilities. -- a mathematician
• Welcome to kicker school
• (after a particularly bad beat) "that was a terrible call" "it's called gambling" "no it's called really sucking at life especially poker and trying to throw your money away because your life is useless and you have been pondering suicide for the last week but getting lucky enough to keep it"
• "I thought it was jack's" - Phil Helmuth Jr. WSOP vs. Jason Lester
• If you don't want to get beat on the river, don't get in a hand with me. -- Dan Nelson
• when i folded an A-7 suited under the gun which would've ended up giving me the small end of a mini jackpot, my dad said, "yeah, if i would've driven to Tucson, I would've found that diamond ring. But i don't drive to Tucson."
• "Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker." - Mike McDermott (Rounders, 1998)
• I cried because I had no draw, until I met a man with no pair.