Poker Quotes

Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually (but not always) hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown.

1. Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all – it will cost you dough and win you nothing.
2. As for poker, I’ve stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean’s Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think “actor” and see some easy money.
3. Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
4. Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.
5. I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it’s acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.
6. I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I’m thinking.
7. I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I’m going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.
8. I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.
9. I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you’re done for.
10. I’m absolutely gonna win it, because I’m ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
11. I’ve been playing Texas Hold ’em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.
12. 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.
13. If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
14. Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts.
15. Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
16. Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
17. Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
18. My kitty cats could rely on my poker winnings.
19. Ninety percent of the hands aren’t shown in a poker game.
20. No, that’s poker. To win, you’ve gotta get damned lucky.