#poker

Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing. ↗

— George Kenney

#cost #dough #hand #like #none

I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking. ↗

— Gena Rowlands

#exactly #face #i #i can #looking

Life may deal you a bad hand or take away a good hand you were already dealt. The way you play the hand is how your life is defined. Just like in poker you can end up winning no matter how bad the cards are you have. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#life #poker #tough-time #inspirational

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. ↗

— Jack London

#making-do #poker #life

I can win anytime. Kevin's going to go back to Burbank and tell everybody in his cubicle how he won at the Golden Nugget. Sometimes the pot isn't the money. ↗

— Heidi Cullinan

#winning #money

Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' He then handed him his money back, pushed him gently from the room, and so made a devoted slave of Tom Simson. ↗

— Bret Harte

#gamble #outcasts-of-poker-flat #money

All serious poker players try to minimize their tells, obviously. There are a couple ways to go about this. One is the robotic approch: where your face becomes a mask and your voice a monotone, at least while the hand is being played. . . . The other is the manic method, where you affect a whole bunch of tics, twitches, and expressions, and mix them up with a river of insane babble. The idea is to overwhelm your opponents with clues, so they can't sort out what's going on. This approach can be effective, but for normal people it's hard to pull off. (If you've spent part of your life in an institution, this method may come naturally.) ↗

— Dan Harrington

#gambling #manic #poker #tells #nature

I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#revolver #sherlock-holmes #steel-poker #toothbrush #watson

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bluff #cards #eye #go #i

The best part about poker is there's no down side. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#best #best part #down #part #poker