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“Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and when played well - nourishes the wallet. Above all else, poker forces the player to face reality and deal with it head-on. These 52 paste-boards have inspired witty thinkers, philosophers, and comedians alike, to come up with clever one-liners and sayings about playing cards. The fact that playing cards have served as chosen symbols and metaphors to impart wisdom says something about how popular and influential playing cards have been in our culture.

• “I've often seen these people, these squares at the table, short stack and long odds against them. All their outs gone. One last card in the deck that can help them. I used to wonder how they could let themselves get into such bad shape, and how the hell they thought they could turn it around.”
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “Mike, I learned it from you. You always told me this was the rule. Rule number one: Throw away your cards the moment you know they can't win. Fold the fucking hand.” - Jo

• “That's the safe play. I told Worm you can't lose what you don't put in the middle. But you can't win much either.”
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “- Worm: What did I ever do to that guy?
  - Mike McDermott: You fucked his mother.
  - Worm: [amused] Yeah but she was a good looking older woman you gotta give me that.”
  Edward Norton - Worm
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “Get your money in when you have the best of it. Protect it when you don't.”
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “We can't run from who we are, our destiny chooses us.”
  Martin Landau - Abe Petrovsky

• “Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. Guys around here will tell ya, you play for a living, it's like any other job. You don't gamble, you grind it out. Your goal is to win one big bet an hour, that's it.”
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “- Moogie: Hey, lemme ask you a question. In the legalsense, can fuckin' Steinbrenner move the Yankees? Does he have the fuckin' right to just move them?
  - Mike McDermott: How should I know that?
  - Moogie: You didn't learn that yet?
  - Mike McDermott: No, we get to Steinbrenner in third year law school.
  - Moogie: Oh...”
  - Moogie
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “- Mike McDermott: I watch the cards but I also watch the player react to the cards. That's how I knew the DA made his two pair and judge Kaplan missed the flush, I was watching their eyes when they checked their river cards, their faces tell you everything.
  - Abe Petrovsky: [confused] You watch the man? I never knew you had to calculate so much...” (continue)(continue reading)Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
  Martin Landau - Abe Petrovsky

• - Worm: You know what always cheers me up, when I'm feeling shitty?
  - Mike McDermott: No, what's that?
  - Worm: Rolled up aces over kings. Check-raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off of them. Playing all-night high-limit Hold'em at the Taj, 'where the sand turns to gold'. Stacks and towers of checks I can't even see over.Edward Norton - Worm
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• In 'Confessions of a Winning Poker Player', Jack King said, 'Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career'. It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking of how... (continue)(continue reading)
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “- Worm: She's really got him by the balls.
  - Petra: That's not so bad, is it?
  - Worm: It depends on the grip!”Edward Norton - Worm
  Famke Janssen - Petra

• “Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker every year? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas? It's a skill game Jo.”Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “- Worm: I guess the sayings' true. In the poker game of life, women are the rake man. They are the fuckin' rake.
  - Mike McDermott: What the fuck are you talkin' about. What saying?
  - Worm: I don't know. There ought to be one though.”
  Edward Norton - Worm
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “First prize at the World Series of Poker is a million bucks. Does it have my name on it? I don't know. But, I'm gonna find out.”
  Matt Damon - Mike McDermott

• “- Mike McDermott: What happened?
  - Worm: Nothing, she closed her legs too fast!”Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
  Edward Norton - Worm

'The best bet you get is an even break.' -Franklin Pierce Adams

'Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.'-George Ade

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. - Al Alvarez

Yes, I think poker really isn’t gambling – Al Alvarez

“I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.” Al Alvarez

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

“It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky.” - Al Alvarez

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

'Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out' – Anonymous

'In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the keno lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.' -An anonymous casino boss

'This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.' Paul Auster, 'The Music of Chance' (1990)

'People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker' – Mary Austin

'You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away.' - Bobby Baldwin

'In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket.' Beausourire, Haitian Poker Player

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“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

“The best part about poker is there's no down side” - Samantha Bee

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. - Henry Ward Beecher

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“In the absence of any mathematical explanation, one thing is for certain; if you engage in games of chance long enough, the experience is bound to affect the way you see God. Successfully draw to an inside straight three hands in a row, and you’ve got to be blessed. But if you’re the person drawn out on, the one whose trip aces just got snapped for the third time, you will go home feeling cursed.” - Andy Bellin, Poker Nation

'One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.' Dan Bennett

'I've learned the lesson that the worst thing that can happen to a gambler is to let his recent losses or wins knock him off keel emotionally.' -Andrew Beyer

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce

POKER, A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.' - Ambrose Bierce, 'The Devil's Dictionary' (1906)

'I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game that is his privilege.” Jack Binion

Good luck needs no explanation. - Shirley Temple Black

The champion makes his own luck. - Red Blaik

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'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