Classic Poker Phrases
Live and breathe poker like us? Then you’ll love these classic poker phrases from legendary poker faces and films alike - plus quotes from a few surprising poker aficionados!
“He folded faster than superman on laundry day” Anon
“'If you can't spot the sucker within the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.”
--common poker saying, as spoken by Matt Damon in Rounders;
originally attributed to Amarillo Slim
“Hold’em is to stud what chess is to checkers”
--Johnny Moss
“Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring or hard and impersonal. It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”
-- Lou Krieger
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“Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.”
-- Anthony Holden (from Big Deal)
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“There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker... 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 one's species.”
-- Mark Twain
“Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.”
-- Amarillo Slim
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“They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them.”
-- Amarillo Slim
“Poker is a game of people... It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with.”
-- Amarillo Slim
“The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.”
-- Big Julie
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
-- Steven Wright
“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
-- Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)
“You call...gonna be all over, baby”.
-- Scotty Nguyen, during the 1998 World Series of Poker.
Down to the final 2 players, he said this to his opponent while holding the winning hand.
Mae West: Is poker a game of chance?
W.C. Fields: Not the way I play it.
-- My Little Chickadee
"If you don't have my money then you are mine."
-- Rounders
"It hurts doesn't it? Your hopes dashed, your dreams down the toilet. And your fate is sitting right besides you."
-- Rounders
"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money. "
-- Rounders
"In the poker game of life, women are the rake"
-- Rounders
Live and breathe poker like us? Then you’ll love these classic poker phrases from legendary poker faces and films alike - plus quotes from a few surprising poker aficionados!
“He folded faster than superman on laundry day” Anon
“'If you can't spot the sucker within the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.”
--common poker saying, as spoken by Matt Damon in Rounders;
originally attributed to Amarillo Slim
“Hold’em is to stud what chess is to checkers”
--Johnny Moss
“Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring or hard and impersonal. It is fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”
-- Lou Krieger
Συμφωνωωωωωω
“Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.”
-- Anthony Holden (from Big Deal)
ΤΕΛΕΙΟ
“There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker... 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 one's species.”
-- Mark Twain
“Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker.”
-- Amarillo Slim
Μεγαλη αληθεια
“They anticipate losing when they sit down and I try my darnedest not to disappoint one of them.”
-- Amarillo Slim
“Poker is a game of people... It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with.”
-- Amarillo Slim
“The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.”
-- Big Julie
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
-- Steven Wright
“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
-- Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)
“You call...gonna be all over, baby”.
-- Scotty Nguyen, during the 1998 World Series of Poker.
Down to the final 2 players, he said this to his opponent while holding the winning hand.
Mae West: Is poker a game of chance?
W.C. Fields: Not the way I play it.
-- My Little Chickadee
"If you don't have my money then you are mine."
-- Rounders
"It hurts doesn't it? Your hopes dashed, your dreams down the toilet. And your fate is sitting right besides you."
-- Rounders
"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money. "
-- Rounders
"In the poker game of life, women are the rake"
-- Rounders
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