Poker

Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the remaining player or players with the best combination of cards. Poker can also refer to video poker which is a single-player game seen in casinos much like a slot machine.

Quotes

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

Related Topics:
Capitalism - Democracy - Lou Krieger

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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

Related Topics:
Matt Damon - Rounders - Amarillo Slim

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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, kindhearted, 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

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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

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Poker is a game of people... It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with. ? Amarillo Slim

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Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers. ? Johnny Moss

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The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius. ? Big Julie

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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ? Steven Wright

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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. ? Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1832)

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You call this one and it's 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.

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A Smith and Wesson beats Four Aces seen on the back of a Murphy's Law teatowel

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Mae West: Is poker a game of chance? W.C. Fields: Not the way I play it. ? My Little Chickadee

Related Topics:
Mae West - W.C. Fields - My Little Chickadee

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My life is a chip in your pile! Ante up! ? Setzer Gabbiani in Final Fantasy VI

Related Topics:
Setzer Gabbiani - Final Fantasy VI

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