”God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e., everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, 1991
”Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.”
Lou Krieger
”Poker is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency.”
Raymond Chandler
”You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone.”
Lou Krieger
”Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match. But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role. The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them. In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise.”
David Moschella
”Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.”
Lou Krieger
”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
”There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, "Shuffle up and deal.”
Lou Krieger
“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
Seven Wright
”The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.”
Author Unknown
”If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.”
Author Unknown
”Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.”
W. Somerset Maugham
”Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.”
Walter Matthau
”Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom.”
VP Pappy
”There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. 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 the species.”
Mark Twain
”The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.“
David Shoup
”I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.”
Jonathan Swift
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