Famous Poker Player Quotes

Great Poker Quotes "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

"These two have no idea what they're about to walk into. Down here to have a good time, they figure, Why not give poker a try? After all, how different can it be from the home games they've played their whole lives? Luck. All the luck in the world isn't going to change things for these guys. They're simply overmatched. We're (the pros at the table) not playing together, but we're not playing against each other, either. It's like the Nature Channel. You don't see piranhas eating each other, do you?"

--Mike from Rounders

"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush". It is enough to make one ashamed of the species."

--Mark Twain

"I've always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I'm the superstar, because I know that ego has destroyed many a poker career."

Jim Boyd, modern-day road gambler

"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?" "All your life, son."

David Spanier, "Total Poker" (1977)

"I recently watched a novice win $10,000 in an hour-long poker session at the Dunes Hotel Casino in Las Vegas from five men who are considered to be among the twenty best Poker players in Las Vegas. That was chance, a momentary aberration in the probabilities. They are inevitable in any gambling game. If it weren't for them - and the long-odds winning they make possible - gambling would be barren of what makes it gambling. Certainly luck operates, to this limited extent, within the theory of probability. All that theory guarantees is that ultimately each player will have been dealt an approximately equal number of opportunities to win, an approximately equal number of good, bad, and indifferent hands."

John Scarne, legendary gambling author

"If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you."
--Unknown

"Yeah, well, sometimes nothing' can be a real cool hand. "
Cool Hand Luke, 1967

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits"
--Anonymous

"I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him."
"Amrillo" Slim Preston

"Really Bad Players Joining Daily. Come Win Some of Their Money."
"Superior Poker" ad

"If you are a guy, you know you play too much poker if your wet dreams involve "nuts" instead of breasts."
Breakeven Player

"It is better to make people think you are a bad poker player, then to play and remove all doubt. Don't play to impress, play to win."
Michael Gersitz

"Don't get mad that you lost, get mad because you didn't win."
Michael Gersitz