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“I don’t know about the four 9’s but I think the ace is pretty hot.”

George Clooney in Oceans Eleven

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“You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away.”
Bobby Baldwin on Poker
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“He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.”
Mark Twain

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“The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.”
David Shoup

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“Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom”
V.P. Pappy

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“Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”

Stephen Wright

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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

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“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”
Paul Newman

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Even Your Poker Face Is Ugly !

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