Poker Quotes · Page 5

Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.

— Laura Prepon

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

— Anonymous

It look like God and Satan was Playing poker and used Job from the bible as a bet!

— Glen Rambharack

I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.

— Colson Whitehead

She: What's your sign? Me: Liquor Up Front. Poker In The Rear.

— Rudy Espinoza

“Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?”

— Colson Whitehead

“You can’t write music right unless you know how the man that’ll play it plays poker.”

— Duke Ellington

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

— Maria Konnikova

Swallow your pride and be completely objective about your own poker skill level. Only then can you implement an effective betting strategy.

— Daniel Negreanu

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

— Samantha Bee

I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're quick with the blinds, you're…

— Sienna Guillory

I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for…

— Neil Gaiman

I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over…

— Floor Jansen

Actors, we like our little cups of cappuccino and our personal umbrella-holders. Poker players, they've gotta be a little bit tougher.

— Tom Everett Scott

“In her first game of high-stakes diplomatic poker, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leaving the table dressed only in a barrel.”

— Tim LaHaye

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But…

— Chris Moneymaker

What you see on a lot of televised poker is highlight-reel poker. That's why I used to like 'Poker After Dark' so…

— Phil Hellmuth

There's more luck in poker. Getting good at golf requires a certain amount of physical aptitude. Both take a lot of patience.…

— Phil Hellmuth

I thought poker might be a perfect environment to start to learn probabilistic decision-making, and to live what it means to have…

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Simon Baker

“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

“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

“The list of adjustments, especially in live poker, goes on and on. This is the great value of Cichy's book. By using…

— Ben Saxton

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

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

— Doyle Brunson

“They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.”

— Howard Tayler

Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.

— Chris Moneymaker

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

— Phil Hellmuth

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

— Steven Wright

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

— Daniel Negreanu

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

I play poker, a game where there is no edge but the luck of the deal and the skill of the player.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Getting under the surface of real-life humans' poker faces humans is hard in a sitcom, even a drama.

— Jesse Armstrong

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.

— Rachel Shelley

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

— Edward Norton

“Are ya glad to see me, or is that a roll of poker chips in your pants?”

— Susannah Scott

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

— Wilford Brimley