Gambling Quote by Al Alvarez Download Open image “Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.” — Al Alvarez ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gambling I think Poker Really Think Yes
Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human… — Charlie Ergen Copy Share Image
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have. — Chris Moneymaker Copy Share Image
I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be,… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics,… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
It is hard to decide whether gambling is a means of getting something for nothing or nothing for something. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Suicide is, after all, the result of a choice. However impulsive the action and confused the motives, at the moment when a man finally… — Al Álvarez Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while… — Sam Rothstein Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
“My casino experience is to someone else their experience with their employer, of how the company has elected to behave solely for greed, profits,… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'. — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
