Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Poker Quotes

"Hold em is to stud what chess is to checkers." -- Johnny Moss

"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

"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")

"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 he held the best possible hand.