Poker Quotes · Page 3

“You don’t ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker.”

— Gillian Flynn

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

— Al Alvarez

I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.

— Jerry Buss

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.

— Gena Rowlands

I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

The World Series of Poker has always attracted a competitive international field.

— Daniel Negreanu

Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.

— Penn Jillette

Dogs are lousy poker players. When the get a good hand they wag their tails.

— Anonymous

Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that…

— Tim Page

“Most of the money you’ll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of…

— Anonymous

Everybody knows the World Series of Poker is the biggest stage in the world. This is where you make your name.

— Phil Hellmuth

Always keep in mind that poker is about limiting your losses and maximizing your gains on every hand you play.

— Daniel Negreanu

I haven't done 'Celebrity Poker Showdown,' and I would love them to have me, but I think I'm not a big enough…

— Robin Weigert

It's one thing to skip class to play poker, but if I'm learning how to think in the real world playing poker,…

— James Holzhauer

“All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we…

— Julia Marriott

I play a lot of board games, so you need to be quite good at strategy and poker faces so people can't…

— Kate Herron

I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the…

— Colson Whitehead

I am here to say that there is no drawback to being a woman in business. But if you think it's a…

— Jeanie Buss

Erik Seidel ended up introducing me to some of the best players in the world, a few of whom also agreed to…

— Maria Konnikova

What gets lost is that half of poker is reading people. When you're reading well and you're making counterintuitive plays, a strictly…

— Phil Hellmuth

“The more I wrote, the less I needed to play. Once I got started I couldn't stop. This was my salvation. Writing…

— Ted Heller

[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by…

— Garry Kasparov

“When they reached the stairs, he didn’t make her climb them herself. He picked her up in his arms and carried her…

— Lora Leigh

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips…

— Simon Baker

“Sure I care about it, just not enough to play cards with my integrity as a poker chip.”

— Michael D. O'Brien

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

— Penn Jillette

I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!

— Cat Deeley

I can play poker when I have to and I think it has made me a better fighter.

— George Groves

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

— James Altucher

The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

— Kate Hudson

Hyper-aggressive poker works best in deep-stack tournaments.

— Daniel Negreanu

“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”

— Steven Wright

Without a doubt, the WSOP in Las Vegas is by far the most prestigious event in the poker world.

— Phil Hellmuth

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

— Maria Konnikova

My father taught me poker at a very young age and I've been playing for money since I was 14 years old.

— Bruce Buffer

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

— Richard Roeper

“A good lawyer, just like a good poker player, must always keep his cards close to his chest.”

— Mallika Nawal

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

— Richard Roeper

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

— Wilford Brimley

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

— Edward Norton