Quote of the day

[ProBlackbird]

Good one there!!

"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker."

-Amarillo Slim

[kendiking]

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. ~Jonathan Swift

[kendiking]

In a game of poker, I can put the players' souls in my pocket. ~Beausourire

[kendiking]

I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream. Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and - when played well, nourishes the wallet. ~Lou Krieger

[kendiking]

In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise. ~Robert Brault

[kendiking]

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

[kendiking]

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

[kendiking]

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away. ~Author Unknown

[kendiking]

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

[kendiking]

[Poker is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency. ~Raymond Chandler