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"Poker is a lot like sex, everyone thinks they are the best, but most don't have a
clue what they are doing!" - Dutch Boy'd
Luck is not a factor. - Lindsay Brigman The Abyss (1989)
I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling
game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on
the backside of the racetrack. - Wilford Brimley
“What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over,
but I'm learning” - Wilford Brimley
“No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky” - Wilford
Brimley
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I
assume it must be evil. - Heywood Hale Broun
We never talk about gambling around my house. - Doyle Brunson
“As far as poker goes, I really didn't play poker but a few times in high
school” - Doyle Brunson
“Once I accepted the fact my career in sports was over, I started playing
poker to support myself” - Doyle Brunson
“People today who play in all the big fancy (legal) card rooms don't
understand what it was like back in those days to be a poker player with all
the problems we had” - Doyle Brunson
“We got robbed in poker games lots of times” - Doyle Brunson
“Everybody today knows what I learned back then because it's in all the
poker books. But nobody knew the right way to play back in those days”
Doyle Brunson
“I also learned from Johnny Moss - who was the best poker player in the
world at that time. I got to watching him and studying him” Doyle Brunson
“I mean there are usually no direct answers to how do you play such-and-
such a hand when somebody raises in front. Every poker situation is
different. The only way you can learn is to play” - Doyle Brunson
“Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game” Doyle Brunson
“I still do my best to promote poker” - Doyle Brunson
“When I saw those pictures of me at the poker tournament, I couldn't believe
how old I looked” - Doyle Brunson
"Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature." -Edmund
Burke, in a speech before the House of Commons (1780)
“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
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always
excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but
every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides
one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else. - Lord Byron.
"They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if
there's another one." -Richard Albert Canfield
We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will
soon be owned by them. - Donald L. Carcieri
"The most difficult aspects of playing poker professionally are coping
emotionally with the losses and coping with the recurring idea that you're not
doing anything worthwhile." - Mike Caro
Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains – Mike Caro
”Poker is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find
outside an advertising agency.” - Raymond Chandler
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck –
George S. Clason
"She got to go to heaven four days early." -President Bill
Clinton
"I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of
those you dislike?" -Jean Cocteau
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the
bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the
good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it. – Robert Collier
"It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in
luck." - Joseph Conrad
Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to
prohibit online gambling will not work, either. - John Conyers
”With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs
typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.”
William Cowper
"I've lost money so fast in these clubs it's left me reeling. I've read every
poker book ever written, but the only way to get better at the game is to go
out and play with people who are really good. The problem is, you stand to
lose a lot of money doing it."
Matt Damon, who was quickly eliminated from the $10,000 main event at
the WSOP in 1998.
“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” - Matt Damon
"Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just
gives him the opportunity to beat himself." -Nicholas (Nick
the Greek) Dandalos
”Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking.” - Nick Dandalos
”Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of
human nature.” - David A Daniel
"I have always wondered if the results of the Versailles Conferences
would have been different if Woodrow Wilson had been a poker
player." -Clyde Brion Davis Quoted in A. D. Livingston, Poker
Strategy and Winning Play
"When a gambler picks up a pack of cards or a pair of dice,
he feels as though he has reduced an unmanageable world to
a finite, visible and comprehensive size." -Annabel Davis-Goff,
The Literary Companion to Gambling
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own
Thoughtlessness – Democritus
"No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady
winner." -Lord Dewar Something to moan out between grinding
teeth after this political season.
Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile - Is earned. –
Emily Dickinson
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I
have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent
more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice. – Denis Diderot
"At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation
rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, and a desire to challenge
it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake
allowed-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot,
I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number,
and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as
though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened
to me." Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear,
two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table,
I almost go into convulsions." -Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
(1867)
"My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling
instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities." Jack
Dreyfus of Dreyfus Mutual Fund
Do you feel lucky? - Clint Eastwood
"You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from
it." -Albert Einstein
God does not play dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein
“I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd” Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see
anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They
judge gambling as some atheists’ judge religion, by its excesses.
" -Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause
and effect." -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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