Random Rounders Quote

Mike McDermott: Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker. 

Random Rounders Quote

Mike McDermott: First prize at the World Series of Poker is a million bucks. Does it have my name on it? I don't know. But, I'm gonna find out. 


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Poker Quotes 2 - The Black and White Version

"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker." - Mary Austin

"The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; happens at the poker table all the time." - General David Shoup

"I believe in luck.  How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" - Jean Cocteau

"Shallow men believe in luck.  Strong men believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poker Quotes

"Poker is 100% skill and 50% luck." - Phil Hellmuth

"Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you." - Jack Strauss

"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

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

Random Rounders Quote

Mike McDermott: You can't lose what you don't put in the middle.
[pause]
Mike McDermott: But you can't win much either.

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Mike McDermott: In "Confessions of a Winning Poker Player," Jack King said, "Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career." It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking of how I lost it.

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[Mike's girlfriend has just left him over his broken promise not to play poker] 
Worm: You know what always cheers me up? 
Mike McDermott: No, what's that? 
Worm: Rolled up aces over kings. Check-raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off of them. Playing all-night high-limit Hold'em at the Taj, "where the sand turns to gold." Stacks and towers of checks I can't even see over. 
Mike McDermott: Fuck it, let's go. 
Worm: Don't tease me. 
Mike McDermott: Let's play some cards. 
Worm: Yes!