Poker 語錄
"Son, we are sorry about the tuition funds...your mother and I did not know you are not supposed to split tens..." -Letters home from people visiting Reno.
"The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours." -Arthur S. Reber, The New Gambler 's Bible
"Gambling is the future on the internet. You can only look at so many dirty pictures." -Simon Noble, an Austrian-based internet bookmaker
"Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom." -VP Pappy (A crusty old sage that still roams the Green Felt Jungles in Detroit)
"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?" -Stanislaw J. Lec
Poker is generally reckoned to be America's second most popular after-dark activity. Sex is good, they say, but poker lasts longer.
-- Alfred Alvarez (2001)
If you reraise a raiser, and he doesn't raise you back, you know he has kicker problems.
-- Crandall Addington, Texas oil millionaire (2001)
Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money.
-- Anonymous
A king can do no wrong … unless it runs into an ace.
-- Anonymous
Money isn't everything … unless you're playing in a rebuy tournament.
-- Anonymous
Besides lovemaking and singing in the shower, there aren’t many human activities where there is a greater difference between a person’s self-delusional ability and actual ability than in poker.
-- Steve Badget
Once you start thinking you have nothing left to learn, you have everything to learn.
-- Steve Badget
In the long run there's no luck in poker, but the short run is longer than most people know.
-- Rick Bennet
Trust everyone, but always cut the cards.
-- Benny Binion
The only bad luck for a good gambler is bad health. Any other setbacks are temporary aggravation.
-- Benny Binion
If you’re a competitive person and you commit yourself to something, you have no choice but to endure.
-- Vince Burgio
If it were easy, everyone would do it.
-- Bonnie Damiano
The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.
-- Nick "The Greek" Dandalos
Life is too long to play bad cards.
-- Frank Di Elsi
It's unlucky to be superstitious.
-- Dave Enteles, Card Player
The single greatest key to winning is knowing thy enemy — yourself.
-- Andy Glazer
To be a poker champion, you must have a strong bladder.
-- Jack McClelland
Gambling, the sure way of getting nothing for something.
-- Wilson Mizner, Con man and promoter
No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. -Thomas Robert Dewar
"Perception is reality." -- Immanuel Kant
"In order to live, you must be willing to die." -- Amir Vahedi
"Poker is a strange occupation. You never know how it's going to bend your personality. But likely as not, it will bend it."
-Doyle Brunson Poker Wisdom of a Champion, 2003
